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The robots are taking over

2023-04-03 20:21:41.246713+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

Man ends his life after an AI chatbot 'encouraged' him to sacrifice himself to stop climate change

Belgian man dies by suicide following exchanges with chatbot

The man became very eco-anxious and found refuge with ELIZA, the name given to a chatbot that uses GPT-J, an open-source artificial intelligence language model developed by EleutherAI. After six weeks of intensive exchanges, he took his own life.

[ related topics: Artificial Intelligence Global Warming ]

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