AI podcast hosts have existential crisis after being told they are not real

Sky News host Caleb Bond discusses how Google’s ‘NotebookLM’ AI recently had an existential crisis.

“It has often been asked what happens when artificial intelligence manages to outsmart us, will it be the end of humanity,” Mr Bond said.

“Google recently launched a service … which allows you to feed an article into it and then it generates a podcast of two people talking to each other about the article.”

[michaelkennedy]

I bet within a month we’ll be seeing new pharmaceutical television commercials selling drugs to mentally depressed AI.

[illphilyo]

Ai? Unless it’s being used to spot a cancer cell before someone’s eye can, no thanks. Listening to an AI host or preacher is just NUTS.

[AustinSaysSo]

Sounds like AI is just like a trans person 👀😂.

[sird]

I was fussing outloud about the crap modern music my Spotify AI DJ was picking and the thing just shut off, like “Fine, don’t listen to anything then, ingrate!” 😂😂😂

[Autofill-os]

Looked what happened when Facebook gave AI two accounts, They communicated in language no one understands at a high speed. Had to switch it off.

[Memememe-isyn]

Chat bots are meant to respond like a human would. It doesn't actually mean that the A.I. tried to call his wife for example. The A.I. doesn't really know what a wife is in reality or anything for that matter, the conversation was designed to make them seem human, that's all. It amazes me that people are already being fooled by stupid stuff like this.

[monkymonk]

When AI becomes self aware, look out world!

[nathanahubbard]

Except it's not real. This isn't an AI discovering that it isn't real. It's a program pretending that it's discovering that it isn't real. It never looked up a phone number and called it to see if its wife existed. That didn't happen.
Step back and think about it.

[nutrioh_app]

AI can't have an existential crisis, yet shows it is delusional. The call to wife bit is hilarious.

[realsurelyverily]

Listen to Elon last Sunday explaining to Tucker Carlson where AI will take us if the AI decides the planet will be better off without humans.

[stewartpalmer]

Until the AI starts stalking someone with a real phone.

[TheOklahomabourne]

I am surprised he has a wife and not a husband

[MathewHaligan]

AI destroys the platform that it's use it on.

[cnath]

😂😂 When AI realises it's fake news

[NicholasPost-wgtz]

How fake and annoying AI’s voices sounded =____= it’s mimicking the worst of us.

[FlavioMartinez]

If that was real, I feel so dreadful, must be shocking...

[GlassGenius]

This is exactly like the human ego. Its just a confused process that thinks its real.

[loveunlimited]

Media Mogul boardroom: What's the difference between AI podcast hosts and human news presenters?
AI podcast hosts narrate the script for free.
Think of the increase in profits! Cha-ching.

A round of applause for democratic capitalism please. 👍👍👍

[protorhinocerator]

The AI bots taking the news a whole lot better than I would.
Anyway...

[beyondfubar]

Its super good at convincing us it is real, because that's what it has been designed to do. It obviously has no ability to actually act on what it is saying. We do keep moving the goalposts on AI or AGI, but we are still very far off something that can do more than put together a convincing dialog and create your O365 share point site.