Elon Musk’s DOGE Confidently Programs a Comical Chatbot Named GSAi

“Elon Musk’s DOGE Is Working on a Custom Chatbot Called GSAi”

“Decades of pop culture have convinced us that chatbots would talk like Star Wars’ C-3PO or The Jetsons’ Rosie the Maid—robustly conversing with humans in full-sentence English. But this is not the reality. Chatbots do not talk like humans; they talk like chatbots.”

Despite the rose-tinted depictions of robots in popular culture, chatbots are not the suave, loquacious androids we were promised. They can’t slyly talk their way out of any situation like C-3PO or put you in your place like Rosie the maid.

The truth is, chatbots are exactly that – bots designed for chit-chat. They have less in common with quipping sci-fi androids and more with auto-correct – prompting, suggesting, and occasionally, irritating. Because let’s be straight, they are more likely to produce a “doge” meme rather than a profound philosophical debate.

Feel bamboozled? Don’t. Because in the era of keyboard warriors and virtual dialogues, sometimes a simple “wow” or “very smart” is all you need. Guess who’s perfectly equipped for that? You got that right. The often-overlooked chatbot.

In fact, according to a team of researchers led by Nicholls, chatbot’s language does not scale with volume but with popularity and repetition. They learn from our communications, their vocabulary building up from commonly used phrases. Basically, they are the parrots of the tech world, mimicking our words and shaping up a language of their own.

However, don’t get too excited. While parrots scream “Hello!”, our friendly chatbots spew phrases like “you’re breathtaking” or “much wow”. They may not charm with Shakespearean sonnets, but they sure know how to keep the meme game strong.

And you know what? Maybe that’s okay. Here we are, in a digital age heavily sustained by internet culture, where memes are essentially a universal language. Perhaps it’s fitting then, for our digital friends to interact in a language that’s essentially 21st-century hieroglyphics.

So the next time your chatbot hits you with a “very cool” or “such wow,” appreciate the effort. Because, chatbots, though far from silver-tongued orators, are actually the perfect diplomats for this meme-riddled, emoji-dominated digital era we are living in. So let’s give credit where credit is due and offer a resounding “much appreciate” for our meme-slinging chatbot comrades.

Read the original article here: https://www.wired.com/story/doge-chatbot-ai-first-agenda/