Stephen WardEvery time I see the 'I'm not a robot' CAPCHA I worry that one day some AGI will take it personally and I'm gonna see an android holding it as a protest sign.
matthewcroughanI have contracted #clankerphobia from @cyclopentane... This is not the same as #robophobia, which would be upsetting to @sophie
LEELA: Doctor, what is robophobia?
DOCTOR: It's an unreasoning dread of robots. You see, most living creatures use non-verbal signals. Body movement, eye contact, facial expression, that sort of thing.
LEELA: Body language.
DOCTOR: Exactly. While these robots are humanoid, presumably for aesthetic reasons, they give no signals. It's rather like being surrounded by walking, talking, dead men.
- Doctor Who 'The Robots of Death' 1977
Anyone else feel very socially awkward asking an LLM chatbot to do something? I asked Bard to write me a Wordpress query and a PHP function last week and both times I felt embarrassed. Not about what other people would think, but what "it" would think of me. I am well aware that these bots are just a more advanced form of predictive text but it unnerved me anyway.