“Are you for or against AI?”
Though simple, those six words expose the problem we face with our current AI discourse (or almost anything else these days). We’re asked to reduce complex concepts into sound bites and remove all the details that are essential in understanding the issues.
Well, let’s dive right in: ChatGPT (which is based on GPT-3, which is based on GPT-2 and so on) is a chatbot from OpenAI that can interact with users and hold a conversation quite naturally. But what does it really do?
I was recently asked to give a talk on how AI is portrayed in fiction and news media, and as I scanned article after article, one thing became clear: AI algorithms (that is, lines of code) were anthropomorphized to an alarming extent.
Today, I want to talk about Robot and Frank, one of the most realistic movies about AI and robots you’ve never heard of. In this underrated gem, an aging burglar receives a robot butler. What can possibly go wrong?
In this post, I’d like to spotlight Velocity Weapon by Megan E. O’Keefe, a novel where the AI depiction is particularly insightful.
