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Black Box: The Chatbots | Happy Accident | Ep 3 – podcast
AI EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
This podcast episode explores the historical roots of conversational artificial intelligence, examining the psychological impact of early chatbots and the rapid societal shift triggered by the introduction of modern language models. Through interviews with industry experts and references to recent research, the program investigates how these technologies deeply engage users.
WHY IT MATTERS
Understanding the psychological hooks of early and modern chatbots sheds light on why contemporary generative AI tools rapidly alter human behavior and communication.
Why are AI chatbots pulling so many people down a rabbit hole? Our answer starts with the world’s first-ever chatbot, the strange effect it had on people and the ‘time bomb’ that exploded when ChatGPT was released four years ago. The result is a strange experiment we are all living through – whether we know it or notStudies and surveys cited in this episode:Amelia Miller’s interviews with AI researchers, engineers, product managers and executives.The 2022 Anthropic pre-print study that identifie...
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