AI Chatbots Don't Care About Your Social Norms - NOEMA

Jacob Browning is a postdoc in NYU's Computer Science Department working on the philosophy of AI. Yann LeCun is a Turing Award-winning machine learning researcher, an NYU professor and the chief AI scientist at Meta. With artificial intelligence now powering Microsoft's Bing and Google's Bard search engines, brilliant and clever conversational AI is at our fingertips. But there have been many uncanny moments -- including casually delivered disturbing comments like calling a reporter ugly, declaring love for strangers or rattling off plans for taking over the world. To make sense of these bizarre moments, it's helpful to start by thinking about the phenomenon of saying the wrong thing.