David Cooper

It seems totally harmless.

But maybe it isn't.

So let's talk about these experiments.

What did you find?

OK, so we're biased on the idea of what we think bias is, because if someone's agreeing with you, that doesn't mean they're unbiased.

And what about feelings of your own intelligence, of your own ability, of your own ability to, I don't know, get the responses to questions right, or your own, I don't know, ability in a particular area of study that you might not know that much about?

Don't quote me on this.

I don't remember the study, but there's some high percentage of drivers who think they're better than average, like 90% or something think they're great drivers.

And that's just a statistical impossibility.

And to your point, this seems all fun and games, these findings.

It's kind of silly.

It's fun to talk about.

But when we think of what people are really using chatbots for these days to do their jobs,

I mean, there are people that kind of claim they're in romantic relationships or use chatbots as therapists against everyone's advice.

When people are using these chatbots in really serious, big ways in their lives, this outcome is kind of alarming, isn't it?

Well, I know that I'm better than the average person at identifying the fact that I'm an idiot.

Most people aren't willing to do that.

Knowing what you know and knowing that a lot of people use these tools, but perhaps don't want to be biased like this, what recommendations would you have to the average chatbot user?

Why should these big companies that have a huge amount of money and control have to do anything?

Come on.