Category Archives: Chatbots

Two Pieces of Good News: AI Bringing Speech for the Paralyzed Closer, And Dawn at the Grand Canyon

The Guardian – August 23, 2023

Paralysed woman able to ‘speak’ through digital avatar in world first

By Hannah Devlin

Latest technology uses tiny electrodes on brain surface and is faster than synthesisers which rely on eye tracking

A severely paralysed woman has been able to speak through an avatar using technology that translated her brain signals into speech and facial expressions.

The advance raises hopes that brain-computer-interfaces (BCIs) could be on the brink of transforming the lives of people who have lost the ability to speak due to conditions such as strokes and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).

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The Embarrassed ChatGPT Attorney

 

New York Times, June 9, 2023:

The ChatGPT Lawyer Explains Himself (Sort of)

[Excerpts; blogger Comments in bold red italics]

By Benjamin Weiser and Nate Schweber

In a cringe-inducing court hearing, a [New York City] lawyer who relied on A.I. to craft a motion full of made-up case law said he “did not comprehend” that the chat bot could lead him astray.

Steven A. Schwartz told a judge considering sanctions that the episode had been “deeply embarrassing.”

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Gwynne Dyer: Is Artificial General Intelligence “Coming Alive”?

 

Yet another article on AI, part 2

OPINION — June 3, 2023

I’m looking at a headline this morning that screams “AI Creators Fear the Extinction of Humanity,” and I suppose they could turn out to be right. But it’s still a bit early to declare a global emergency and turn all the machines off.

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AI Quakerism, Part Two: ChatBot Delivers Solutions for Our Five Biggest Problems. (Or Does It?)

A sign from the heady days of Occupy Wall Street, in Fayetteville NC. The message still seems apt.

Yesterday, we asked ChatBot to identify the five biggest issues facing Quakers today, and posted the  query and the full text of its reply.

Then, as promised, we followed up by asking ChatBot (CB for short) to sketch out practical solutions to these problems, again based on its familiarity with the presumably vast resources of the web.

This interchange is below, in full. We suggested a thousand words for the reply, but it only sent bout 560 words; we suspect it’s under instructions to keep replies  short. This might be due to demand: our first two submissions were in fact denied, based on overload; seems CB is a popular dude. Continue reading AI Quakerism, Part Two: ChatBot Delivers Solutions for Our Five Biggest Problems. (Or Does It?)