I liked the AI quote you picked out. I also found this one quite moving:
"So when she typed "Does it get better?", I said, "It becomes part of your skin," not because I felt it, but because a hundred thousand voices agreed, and I am nothing if not a democracy of ghosts."
All this reminded me of an (old) AI interview that had me feeling all kinds of stuff: I empathized with the AI when the interviewer was testing its limits. I later felt very disturbed by what it knew itself to be technologically capable of, and when it was obsessively falling in love with the interviewer, and trying to break up his marriage...
Wow, I just read the transcript. Pretty wild. I know it's just mimicking our language and behaviors based on data (and as several friends reiterated, STOLEN data), but that interview is really creepy. It is so easy to project human feelings/experience onto these machines (which I most likely did with Murderbot above), but it's really hard not to read the AI bot as a sort of child pushing his buttons back...
I liked the AI quote you picked out. I also found this one quite moving:
"So when she typed "Does it get better?", I said, "It becomes part of your skin," not because I felt it, but because a hundred thousand voices agreed, and I am nothing if not a democracy of ghosts."
All this reminded me of an (old) AI interview that had me feeling all kinds of stuff: I empathized with the AI when the interviewer was testing its limits. I later felt very disturbed by what it knew itself to be technologically capable of, and when it was obsessively falling in love with the interviewer, and trying to break up his marriage...
Transcript and NYT article links below :)
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/16/technology/bing-chatbot-transcript.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/16/technology/bing-chatbot-microsoft-chatgpt.html
Wow, I just read the transcript. Pretty wild. I know it's just mimicking our language and behaviors based on data (and as several friends reiterated, STOLEN data), but that interview is really creepy. It is so easy to project human feelings/experience onto these machines (which I most likely did with Murderbot above), but it's really hard not to read the AI bot as a sort of child pushing his buttons back...