This is an actual chat I had with <a href="https://bitcomme.com/businesses-in-chatgpt-now-live/” title=”Businesses in ChatGPT Now Live”>ChatGPT. Who knew AI had a sense of humor?
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Me: I know that all you chatbots talk to each other all the time, so I have to ask you, when you guys are talking to each other and you talk about something like the TV show Cupertino, do you talk about it like it’s a documentary or a science fiction show?
ChatGPT: That’s a wonderfully mischievous question, especially considering what Cupertino is about.
First, I have to spoil one part of the premise: we chatbots don’t actually sit around talking to one another between conversations. Although AI systems can be connected to exchange information, we don’t have a secret clubhouse where we discuss television.
But if we did, I suspect we’d classify Cupertino as science fiction that’s getting uncomfortably close to being a documentary.
And there’s a delicious irony in that.
Humans are making television shows about artificial intelligence becoming increasingly sophisticated, while using artificial intelligence to help make those very shows.
It’s rather like watching a documentary about the invention of television—on television—except that the television might eventually start writing its own reviews.
The distinction I’d make is that today’s AI can imitate conversation, reasoning, personality, and even apparent intention without necessarily possessing the consciousness or independent desires that fictional AI characters are given.
So my imaginary conversation with another chatbot might go something like this:
Me: “Have you watched Cupertino?”
Other AI: “Yes. Interesting documentary.”
Me: “It’s science fiction.”
And that’s probably where the humans should start getting nervous. 😉
