About this episode

The episode explores the impact of AI chatbots on society, tracing their history and the effects of ChatGPT's release.

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 not

Topics covered

• AI chatbots
• history of chatbots
• impact of technology
• societal effects
• experiments in AI

Keywords

• AI
• chatbots
• ChatGPT
• technology
• society
• experiments
• history

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: The Guardian

Products: ChatGPT

Books & works: Black Box: The Chatbots

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