Simone Giertz

And I think...

Chatbots are really, really exciting.

I'm stoked to have a personal assistant that's like, or a virtual assistant that actually does a good job and can solve problems for me.

But yeah, it also feels like it can get dark really, really quickly.

Yeah.

I mean, it's the same in like algorithms being used to radicalize people or kind of having that as a consequence of the way that they work and combine that with a really advanced language model.

And like you can control people's worldview in a way that you could.

I mean, it's just, it's wild.

And I think we're not ready for it.

And I don't know if we ever would be because we're very impressionable little squishy flesh bags.

Bubble on bubble.

New people, paper.

No, cause I built them and I know how they work.

I don't know.

Yeah.

But I think it's like, I definitely, when I did a lot of the shitty robot stuff, like I wanted them to move like a human or like in a more organic way and not just like point A to point B, which is the easiest way to program stuff.

So I wanted other people to anthropomorphize them, but I don't think I did necessarily.

I'm trying to think of a piece of technology that I've,

Kind of projected feelings upon, but no, I can't.

No, because they're all pretty dumb.