“I like movies that are realistic. I like movies that are romantic. I like movies that are about us”: from The New York Times, the transcript of a reporter’s two-hour “conversation” with Microsoft Bing’s A.I. chatbot. That's the bot talking about movies. It’s more than slightly unnerving.
As I said to my son this morning, I’ve had it with thinking about chatbots as part of the world I want to live in. A line from Ted Berrigan’s poem “Mi Casa, Su Casa” sums it up: “‘I want human to begin with.’” And thereafter.
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[In the poem, the line is in quotation marks: quoted speech?]
Thursday, February 16, 2023
A “conversation” with a chatbot
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I know AIs are all around us, but I decided after a coupla hours I wasn't interested in chatting with them--will continue to focus on chatting with strangers on the bus.
ReplyDeletePeople are better!
ReplyDeleteAnd dolls, too.
ReplyDeleteStuffies too.
ReplyDeleteAren't virtual and IVR assistants annoying enough?
ReplyDeleteWhat I find unnerving about virtual/IVR assistants is the use of "I" in their programming. "Now, how can I help you?" There is no "I" to help me. It's like a non-visual uncanny valley or something for me.
I find it funny that they can't understand me a significant part of the time, even when I'm saying something as clear and easy to articulate as YES. "I'm sorry. I don't understand."
There is no "I" to be sorry or to understand. There is no conscious being.
Grrr.
I may have to post this.
And if you need to speak a string of numbers (which I’ve had do to countless times managing things for my mom), they never come out right.
ReplyDeleteA couple of days ago I was plunking a few notes on the piano while listening to a phonebot and it spoke up: “I’m sorry, I didn’t get that.”