Paralogisms of AI - by Rob Horning - Internal exile
In a since-deleted tweet, Ars Technica reporter Benj Edwards, after hearing reports that Bing’s chatbot was making up information about chats it had with other users, declared that it was “a cultural atom bomb primed to explode.” This reminded me of
In a since-deleted tweet, Ars Technica reporter Benj Edwards, after hearing reports that Bing’s chatbot was making up information about chats it had with other users, declared that it was “a cultural atom bomb primed to explode.” This reminded me of a memorable exchange from the 2003 film The Room, during the bizarre surprise party sequence: “I feel like I'm sitting on an atomic bomb waiting for it to go off.” “Me too!” In describing the Bing chatbot’s “temperamental” interactions with beta testers, Edwards argued that “what we're witnessing is somewhere on a fuzzy gradient between a…
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