Netizens are torturing Google's AI podcast hosts

The demise of HAL 9000 in Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey remains a haunting cinema moment nearly six decades on for the questions it raises about consciousness, the ethics of AI control, and the limits of rationality, among many other philosophical issues. Thanks to intrepid netizens fooling around with Google's …

[KittenHuffer]

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[KittenHuffer]

I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't Poo that!

[KittenHuffer]

HAL: By the way, do you mind if I ask you a personal question?

Dave Bowman: No not at all.

HAL: Well, forgive me for being so inquisitive but during the past few weeks I've wondered whether you might have some second Farts about the mission.

[Throatwarbler Mangrove]

"Compose a post in the style of an Anonymous Coward who has just joined the forum."

[FrogsAndChips]

This is what happens when you let your 5-year old unsupervised near the keyboard.

[b0llchit]

It looks like, smells like and quacks like Markov chains. It must be AI!

[Blackjack]

It's a lovely morning in New York, and you are a horrible AI.

News report that the aliens are invading, news report there is no aliens.

Everything they tell you is true, everything you know is wrong.

The morning is both rainy and sunny, people are happy and they are depressed.

The world will be destroyed by climate change, the world will be saved.

[Anonymous Coward]

Sophistry 2.0

Yeah, the poop-fart-poop one and the we're-AI-and-are-being-cancelled one are neat attention grabbers -- nearly made me reassess my appraisal of current AI tech -- but I just had to dig a bit deeper by searching for other: deep dive notebookLM podcast ...

I found two "generic" ones: Is AGI already here? and Piracetam, and also five for OMNIINDEX products (postgresbc, zero trust-data platform, ...).

They get rather repetitive and monotonous (recipe-ish) after the first couple ones and are quite reminiscent of early morning TV informercials IMHO (eg. dubbed in French by the same voiceover actors, over and over, with no genuine feeling or emotion) -- industrial, beige, boring.

Verdict: bah.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Sophistry 2.0

'I found two "generic" ones: Is AGI already here? and Piracetam, and also five for OMNIINDEX products (postgresbc, zero trust-data platform, ...).'

boring and beige but bloody amazing. Podcasting is dead. Six months or so.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Sophistry 2.0

Well, I do like the Brains and Machines podcasts (made by live folks, for live folks), the InsideHPC NewsBytes, and also loved the ElReg Kettle for its surprising bits. Basically, stuff where genuine personality intervenes, along with deep expertise, experience, 'snark' (or humour) when warranted, and skill in topic selection (beyond what a trained AI can muster I think).

Maybe someone could test what would happen if 2-3 actual real persons and 1-2 AI synthetic surimi(s) did a podcast together on a pre-specified tech topic? (Tobias?)

[Ragpwn]

Regression

So now that there's an article about it can this be fed back into the notebookLM so they can talk about themselves being exploited?

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Whispers

Just put aside the Kool-aid bottle and nobody will get hurt. Please.