chatbot ethics

When Google released Gemini, a new chatbot powered by artificial intelligence, it quickly faced a backlash — and unleashed a fierce debate about whether A.I. should be guided by social values, and if so, whose values they should be.

Kevin Roose, a technology columnist for The Times and co-host of the podcast “Hard Fork,” explains.

Guest: Kevin Roose, a technology columnist for The New York Times and co-host of the podcast “Hard Fork.”

Background reading: 

• Hard Fork: Gemini’s culture wars, and more.
• From Opinion: Should we fear the woke A.I.?

For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily. Transcripts of each episode will be made available by the next workday. 

Our 71st episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

This week:

• Applications
  • Always there': the AI chatbot comforting China's lonely millions
  • AI startups claim to detect depression from speech, but the jury’s out on their accuracy
• Research
  • GPT-3 mimics human love for ‘offensive’ Reddit comments, study finds 
  • AI Researchers Introduce A Graph Neural Network Estimator for ETA Prediction at Google Maps
• Ethics
  • Tesla is ordered to turn over Autopilot data to a federal safety agency.
  • Bias persists in face detection systems from Amazon, Microsoft, and Google
• Fun
  • The time a human-driven car ran over an autonomous robot 
  • These cute electric robots may soon deliver your dinner

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Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)