Dating a Chatbot, Meta’s Blue Tick and the Death of Internet Explorer with Jag Sharma, Jason Kapadia and Charis Marr - Episode 40
It was only a matter of time before chatbots found Tinder…
While ChatGPT is landing people dates, Bing’s AI chatbot is picking existential fights with its users, and Elon Musk (of all people) is the voice of reason calling for regulation.
It’s been a frenetic fortnight in technology, so Charis Marr and Jason Kapadia join Jag Sharma to cover it all, including Meta’s move to create a paid verification scheme, and we pay our respects to a barely-beloved browser.
This episode of Disconnected covers:
Meta bringing paid verification to Facebook and Instagram
The strong personality of Bing’s AI chatbot
Safety and regulation to keep AI in check
ChatGPT goes on a date
The death of Internet Explorer
Episode Highlights:
“I think that this move completely is a move to appease Wall Street rather than anything else. It's just trying to show that Facebook isn't a company that just 100% relies on advertising for its main revenue stream. ” - 3:50 - Jason Kapadia
“I think this has been hysterical. Conversations with a chatbot can be seen as insulting users, lying to them, sulking, gaslighting, emotionally manipulating people, questioning its own existence.” - 7:15 - Charis Marr
“I think we're going into this way too fast. We've got way too many members of the public having access to this. It's almost like we are the test. It's in beta mode, but we are the test.” - 12:15 - Jag Sharma
“This 24 year old Welshman decided to use ChatGPT to see if it could help him land a date. He was copying and pasting their conversations, asking ChatGPT for ideas, and it totally delivered because it landed a date for the guy.” - 18:05 - Jason Kapadia
“A lot of companies are talking about doing AI responsibly. But what's really evident in such a short space of time, it can take you into quite irresponsible territory, maybe without even realising. I don't necessarily think some of the consequences have been worked through.” - 22:40 - Charis Marr
Links & references:
Charis Marrl:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/charismarr/
Jason Kapadia:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonkapadia/
https://www.instagram.com/jasonkapadia/
Jag Sharma: