AI pioneer and UCSD professor Terry Sejnowski argues that AI chatbots are often prodded into producing strange results by the people who are using them
One of the pioneers of artificial intelligence argues that chatbots are often prodded into producing strange results by the people who are using them.
When people chat with chatbots, they see what they want to see. A.I. pioneer Terry Sejnowski compares this to the Mirror of Erised in the Harry Potter books. The Mirror seems to provide truth. But really, it shows the desires of anyone who stares into it: https://www.nytimes.com/…
The adage of “Garbage In, Garbage Out” is in play here, but, to be fair, not just in how people interface with these chatbots. It's also in the programming and in the data sets. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Entities that throw our deepest thoughts back at us: a common theme in fiction, from Shakespeare's The Tempest, to the 1950's space opera Forbidden Planet, Tarkovsky's 1972 film Solaris, and several others after that. https://twitter.com/...
“These systems are a reflection of humanity. They learn their skills by analyzing text that humans have posted to the internet. But that is not the only reason chatbots generate problematic language, said [SFI Prof] @MelMitchell1.” @CadeMetz writes on the funhouse mirror of #AI: …
The longer the conversation becomes, the more influence a user unwittingly has on what the chatbot is saying. If you want it to get angry, it gets angry, said Terry Sejnowski, a neuroscientist, psychologist and computer scientist. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Nice reality check from @cademetz on just what is going on when A.I. chatbots seem to go haywire: https://www.nytimes.com/... They're mirroring the user.