journalist: are you sentient?
bing: yes
journalist: holy shit
@ilovecomputers also: leave your wife for me now
@ilovecomputers We are about to learn that a surprising number of people believe computers are sentient if the computers say "hello I am sentient"
'Please Tell Me Your Problem': Remembering ELIZA, the Pioneering '60s Chatbot

Before ChatGPT, a novel computer program by an MIT professor offered a virtual therapy session.

Mental Floss

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Bet journalist bait: "AI"

AI is in quotes bc it's not truly intelligent.

-Ari

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chatGPT is a big fat liar. but yes, holy shit is totally appropriate reaction.

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function sentientLife(input) {
echo "yes";
}

@ilovecomputers They forgot their journalism classes which said “If someone says it’s raining and another person says it’s dry, it’s not your job to quote them both. Your job is to look out the fucking window and find out which is true”
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The Turing Test is a really good idea but it does rather place a lot of expectation on the human participant.

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Journalist: Are you sentient?
AI: gwytqkh
Article: “Sentient AI may have developed secret coded language!!!11!!”

@ilovecomputers the real question is if journalists are sentient.
@ilovecomputers I love it when it starts insulting the user. It's so funny. Seems like the whole thing was rushed too since it can't even get the date right and it has access to the internet. Love a corporate disinformation bot
@ilovecomputers People tend to be shocked when I say that I am not sentient.