Baby Osamaa AI (2023)
In the 1960s, Joseph Weizenbaum, a German-American computer scientist at MIT and artificial intelligence pioneer, developed ELIZA, a program capable of simulating simple conversations. It was one of the first chatbots and among the earliest machines to pass the Turing test.
ELIZA’s success shocked Weizenbaum. He was particularly disturbed by how people, including his personal secretary, attributed human emotions to the program. In the years that followed, Weizenbaum became increasingly critical of AI, stating at one point that it was an “index of the insanity of our world.”
Fast forward 50 years and chatting with AI feels like the most normal thing in the world. In some situations, people even prefer speaking to machines over humans. Take Baby Osamaa, for example. In “AI”, an artsy trap vignette that is our song of the day, the Bronx rapper mumbles: "I talk to AI cause I can't trust / Talk to AI when I had enough."
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