I usually assume things like this are at least partially fake; an army of low-wage employees is both cheaper and more convincing than the current state of the art in AI. That said, I see that this was originally a Microsoft project, and the Wikipedia article quotes Bill Gates (who I wouldn’t expect to directly lie about this intentionally.) Now that it’s spun off, it’s in other hands, though. I also wouldn’t expect that a fake AI would have had to be censored to keep it from talking about politically sensitive topics, which apparently the real one did. (I assume low-wage employees pretending to be an AI would automatically know what topics to stay away from, assuming they are from the same country.) So I’m not sure what to believe.
I suspect this article is an advertisement for the product. I mean, the main thing you learn is the name of the product, and that it is so good that millions of people now cannot imagine their lives without it. Plus a little bit of controversy, to make people share the link on social networks.
I usually assume things like this are at least partially fake; an army of low-wage employees is both cheaper and more convincing than the current state of the art in AI. That said, I see that this was originally a Microsoft project, and the Wikipedia article quotes Bill Gates (who I wouldn’t expect to directly lie about this intentionally.) Now that it’s spun off, it’s in other hands, though. I also wouldn’t expect that a fake AI would have had to be censored to keep it from talking about politically sensitive topics, which apparently the real one did. (I assume low-wage employees pretending to be an AI would automatically know what topics to stay away from, assuming they are from the same country.) So I’m not sure what to believe.
I suspect this article is an advertisement for the product. I mean, the main thing you learn is the name of the product, and that it is so good that millions of people now cannot imagine their lives without it. Plus a little bit of controversy, to make people share the link on social networks.