![]() ![]() Are humans hardwired for the Eliza effect?īut since the Eliza effect is known, and real, shouldn’t we assume that humans may be hardwired for it, especially if these tools are designed to encourage it? Mitchell referred me to a Wikipedia article about the Eliza effect, named for the 1966 chatbot Eliza, which was found to be successful in eliciting emotional responses from users, and has become defined as the tendency to anthropomorphize AI. In addition, I added that asking humans to stay away from anthropomorphizing AI seemed similar to asking humans not to ask Fido “Who’s a good boy?” We do the same with Alexa/Siri & I do it w/ birds, dogs & cats too. The tool has a name (Sydney), uses emojis to end each response, and refers to itself in the 1st person. That led me to tweet: “I keep thinking about how difficult it is to not anthropomorphize. Instead, I spent part of last week indulging in some deep thoughts (and tweets) about my own response to the Bing AI chats published by others.įor example, in response to a Washington Post article that claimed the Bing bot told its reporter it could “feel and think things,” Melanie Mitchell, professor at the Santa Fe Institute and author of Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans, tweeted that “this discourse gets dumber and dumber … Journalists: please stop anthropomorphizing these systems!” One week ago, Microsoft announced that one million people had been added to the waitlist for the AI-powered new Bing.īy Wednesday, many of those who had been awed by Microsoft’s AI chatbot debut the previous week (which included Satya Nadella’s declaration that “ The race starts today” in search) were less impressed by Sydney’s epic meltdowns - including the New York Times’ Kevin Roose, who wrote that he was “deeply unsettled” by a long conversation with the Bing AI chatbot that led to it “declaring its love” for him.īy Friday, Microsoft had reined in Sydney, limiting the Bing chat to five replies to “stop the AI from getting real weird.” >Follow VentureBeat’s ongoing generative AI coverage<< ![]()
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