Perhaps I was too dismissive with ChatBots Are For Children: "What’s Ahead for OpenAI? Project Strawberry, Orion, and GPT Next" and "ChatBots Are Not The Be-All And End-All Of Artificial Intelligence".
From ScienceNews, September 12:
Facts presented by AI appear to help dismantle conspiratorial beliefs
Know someone convinced that the moon landing was faked or the COVID-19 pandemic was a hoax? Debating with a sympathetic chatbot may help pluck people who believe in those and other conspiracy theories out of the rabbit hole, researchers report in the Sept. 13 Science.
Across multiple experiments with more than 2,000 people, the team found that talking with a chatbot weakened people’s beliefs in a given conspiracy theory by, on average, 20 percent. Those conversations even curbed the strength of conviction, though to a lesser degree, for people who said the conspiratorial belief was central to their worldview. And the changes persisted for two months after the experiment....
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Our master plan for world domination may be getting a little freshening-up.
