An essay I wrote about a couple of weeks ago is going viral for something I did not discuss: the fact that an AI chatbot convinced a woman to euthanize her dog.
Spot on. My dad, IBM's lead logician, worked/taught with Marvin Minsky ('father of AI' if you went to MIT) back when bellbottoms were the thing. Minsky was going on to the adoring roundtable about how AI would make possible a conversation with your thermostat. My dad brought that thread to a grinding halt by asking the assembled boffins: 'Who the hell wants to have a conversation with a thermostat?' This c1975. Plus ça change...
Spot on. My dad, IBM's lead logician, worked/taught with Marvin Minsky ('father of AI' if you went to MIT) back when bellbottoms were the thing. Minsky was going on to the adoring roundtable about how AI would make possible a conversation with your thermostat. My dad brought that thread to a grinding halt by asking the assembled boffins: 'Who the hell wants to have a conversation with a thermostat?' This c1975. Plus ça change...