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The Latest Breaking News from Joseph Weizenbaum

I looked into how AI chatbots respond to emotions — and what I found out about the ‘ELIZA effect’ completely changed how I think about using them

Forget the attention economy, it's the attachment economy you need to be worried about.

TechRadar

Is it safe to use ChatGPT as a therapist? |Euronews Tech Talks

Little is still known about the relationship between humans, therapy, and AI chatbots, yet these tools are being used by some people seeking psychological support. What are the risks? Are there any benefits?

Euronews

We should have paid more attention to Blake Lemoine...and Joseph Weizenbaum

Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman is not the first to ring alarm bells about AI chatbots that seem all too alive. It's time AI companies do more to design their chatbots to seem less like people.

Fortune

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OPINION - I thought AI would come for our jobs, but it's worse than that: it wants to be our friend

Your chatbot bestie will always reflect unconditional positive regard back to you — and encourage your delusions

Evening Standard

'ELIZA,' the world's 1st chatbot, was just resurrected from 60-year-old computer code

Researchers discovered long-lost computer code and used it to resurrect the early chatbot ELIZA.

LiveScience

97 Interesting And Intriguing Facts From The “Today I Learned” Community (New Facts)

Sink in your curiosity teeth into these little nuggets of information that over 39M people on the subreddit deemed worthy for you to see. The post 97 Interesting And Intriguing Facts From The “Today I Learned” Community (New Facts) first appeared on Bored Panda.

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12 game-changing moments in the history of AI

From Alan Turing's seminal paper to the advent of ChatGPT, here are 12 pivotal moments in the history of artificial intelligence.

LiveScience

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ChatGPT’s use of a soundalike Scarlett Johansson reflects a troubling history of gender-stereotyping in technology

Actress Scarlett Johansson released a statement this week expressing anger and concern that OpenAI used a voice “eerily similar” to her own as a default voice for ChatGPT.

The Conversation

Israel in turmoil: inside 4 August Guardian Weekly

Netanyahu’s judicial coup. Plus Stormzy’s scholarship graduates

The Guardian - UK

Five Great Reads: human meat, making friends with AI and getting over being hurt

Guardian Australia’s weekend wrap of essential reads from the past seven days, selected by Imogen Dewey

The Guardian - AU

‘A certain danger lurks there’: how the inventor of the first chatbot turned against AI

Computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum was there at the dawn of artificial intelligence – but he was also adamant that we must never confuse computers with humans

The Guardian - UK

Michael Hiltzik: Artificial intelligence chatbots are spreading fast, but hype about them is spreading faster

Those of us who have spent the last few decades reporting on technology have seen fads and fashions rise and fall on investment bubbles.

Los Angeles Times

An AI chatbot may be your next therapist. Will it actually help your mental health?

In the past few years, 10,000 to 20,000 apps have stampeded into the mental health space, offering to “disrupt” traditional therapy. With the frenzy around AI innovations like ChatGPT, the claim that chatbots can provide mental health care is on the horizon.

Tribune News Service

The precursor to ChatGPT from 1966

Eliza, a chatbot that substituted for a shrink, fascinated and troubled humanity back when it was released

Salon

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Axios

ChatGPT's edge: We want to believe

Our brains, ever on the hunt for signs of life, are primed to see a chatbot's typing as human.

The Guardian - UK

ChatGPT isn’t a great leap forward, it’s an expensive deal with the devil

The new chatbot is generating a lot of hype, but we would do well to consider its human and environmental cost

The Guardian - US

From Hitchhiker’s Paranoid Android to Wall-E: why are pop culture robots so sad?

‘Sentient’ AI seems to shoulder the weight of the world. Maybe we humans want it that way

Reason

Does Google's LaMDA Artificial Intelligence Program Have a Soul?

The future of techno-animism in a world filled with machine intelligence.

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Google places engineer who claims Chatbot AI has mind of its own on leave

The company's view: Not so fast. The algorithm is just a very good conversationalist.

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