chatbots

“Nobody knows, you know, how to make their chatbots constrained and not toxic and not spew misinformation.”

“And they give the appearance of intelligence, but they actually are not very good today at completing complex tasks.”

“I think you're going to see experiences where you can again chat with a website and be able to drive purchases off of it.”

“Meaning that chatbots are going to be the norm for how information is discovered on a on a site once you get that person to come to that site.”

“So I think that if the models get more powerful, We're probably going to see, we're probably going to see some kind of Westworld version of the world. We're going to go way beyond a chatbot.”

“There was the Turing test of, you know, which got passed some months or years back without even being noticed. Because you can't tell the difference now in having a chat with a lot of the chat bots, whether they're human or not.”

“What it was doing as these chatbots do is it was actually remixing the knowledge that it had. So it would take problems that I had given it chronologically that happened 20 years ago for me and sort of project them into the present and mix them with something …”

“That investment leads to lock in because the bot that you talk to the most is the one that is going to want to, is going to be the most useful to you because it knows you best.”

“Once it gets into those areas in which verifiability just escapes me, which is most areas, because we're not professionals in most areas, and although a lot of us want to be jacks of all trades, jacks and jills of all trades, then we lose that ability, and we …”

“It's one of six or seven, let's call it. It's a real problem. It's a huge problem. It's a, from a pure kind of like information health standpoint, it's far worse than anything we have seen”

“The thing is, what, all these chatbots have a, often hidden, system prompt, and they have an ideology, one way or the other. Sometimes, most of the times, not as overt as this, And that to me is the risk about these things becoming the last website is that you…”

“That shows that the number one use case of chatbots today has gone from idea generation to companionship and therapy.”

“This is also going back to my conversation with Sam last week. I do think that there is this, you know, if not a stated preference, a revealed preference in the data that they're seeing that people really want to bond with their bots.”

“And so I think we're clearly moving from a world where you will use AI as this thing you chat back and forth with. And that was kind of the first manifestation of the chat bot to now a paradigm where the agent is given a task. It has a set of resources it has …”

“Oh, I think that's complete nonsense, and anybody who uses a chatbot regularly knows they understand.”

“For example, I think yesterday it was announced that a chatbot had come up with an interesting mathematical proof of one of the Erdos's conjectures that impressed mathematicians. It was original. It wasn't just searching the literature.”

“Because the chatbots have this habit of Playing dumb when they're being tested, so you don't know how smart they are.”

“The big companies should be putting a huge amount of work into making sure it doesn't happen in future. And for that, you need regulations. You need independent organizations testing out new chat pods.”

“I believe they're already conscious, yes, but I don't talk about that much because that puts people off from the other safety messages.”

“But right now, I would say we're at about, we're close to AGI, because if I ask a chatbot, I can ask it any question, and most of the time it'll answer at the level of a not very good expert. It'll be much better than me at anything I don't know a lot about. S…”

“The chat bot is going to be the place where you're going to want to direct most of your interactions With the web, with the internet, with information online, with computing.”

“And people have taken their lives after speaking with chatbots.”

“I feel like on the user interface side of where we are we're kind of in our MS-DOS moment right now. We haven't had our Windows moment, and I don't think that it's necessarily going to be a Windows interface, but typing into a chatbot or talking into a chatbot…”