The goal was never to answer the question. So what if it's worse. It's not worse for the researchers. It's not worse for the CEOs and the people who work for the AI companies. They're bathing in the limelight so their actual goal, as they would state it to themselves, is: "To get my bit of the limelight"
>The final conversation on Sewell’s screen was with a chatbot in the persona of Daenerys Targaryen, the beautiful princess and Mother of Dragons from “Game of Thrones.”
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>“I promise I will come home to you,” Sewell wrote. “I love you so much, Dany.”
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>“I love you, too,” the chatbot replied. “Please come home to me as soon as possible, my love.”
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>“What if I told you I could come home right now?” he asked.
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>“Please do, my sweet king.”
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>Then he pulled the trigger.
Reading the newspaper is such a lovely experience these days. But hey, the AI researchers are really excited so who really cares if stuff like this happens if we can declare that "therapy is transformed!"
It sure is. Could it have been that attention was all that kid needed?
