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Tag: Chatbot

  • AI is really annoying – there, there?

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    My homage to two famous cartoons: As I’ve noted elsewhere, verbal (or literary) agility need not be a sign of intelligence. And such fluency can be glib, even annoying. Especially when, as with some people, responses are repetitive, follow predictable patterns – in autopilot mode. So, AI puts us in a similar place. Driven by hope & hype, it’s shoehorned into spaces where even tech…

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  • Human welfare needs help – the AI welfare sideshow

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    Tools .. totems … T-factor (thalamocortical network) … consciousness in the circle of life, eh. [1] As mentioned elsewhere, remember that “there’s nobody home” when interacting with gen AI models and chatbots. Despite occasional chatbot psychosis where a user attributes some type of agency, perhaps even a consciousness, to a chatbot. Yet, expert commentary, as cited in this article (below), is unlikely to counter “conspiracies”…

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  • In AI chatbots we trust – too much

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    Does trust require truth? Facts? With explanations of the speaker’s reasoning & sources? Or just because “(A)I said it’s so” – authoritatively. So, what could go [1] … hardly anyone understands how their smartphone works … (as well as most electronics, eh). Nothing new there for technology … yet, nobody likes to be conned, fooled … but is resistance futile with AI? [2] I’m reminded of…

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  • What’s fair use got to do with it – limits on AI’s hoover up?

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    yeah, what’s fair use about, about for the news?what’s fair use but an old-fashioned notion?what’s fair got to say, got to say about it?who needs copyright when hoovering up is so easy? there’s a case that fitsit’s legalitya court room awaits …criminality? it may seem i’m overreactingwhen you copy out my words …if i’m sounding pissed, you’ve posted itwhere it’s not legit oh, what’s fair…

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  • Generative AI sans horse sense – unreliable narrators by design?

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    I like the way that I can do a Google search using a photo – drag & drop it into a search box – to identify its content. I like the way I can extract text from a photo (providing the photo has sufficient resolution on that content). And Amazon uses AI to summarize the gist of product reviews (to some degree). But in the rush…

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