Artificial intelligence is back in the headlines because it seems to be getting so much smarter.

I found myself forgetting that it was a chatbot generator.

You know, it referenced this feeling it gets in the pit of its stomach, it referenced its mother.

A digital game designer won first place at the Colorado State Fair Fine Arts Competition

after submitting a painting created by an AI computer program.

I realized that I was having the most sophisticated conversation about the nature of sentience that I'd ever had.

And I was having it with a computer program.

All of these very malevolent depictions of robotics and artificial intelligence

influenced how people felt about AI.

What if the AI makes better decisions, safer decisions, than human beings?

Do we abdicate that responsibility? Do we lose that agency?

From chat, GPT and AI art to neural nets and information war,

Artificial Intelligence in 2023.

It's all coming up after this.

From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.

I'm for Gladstone.

If 2023 thus far had a person of the year, it might well be AI.

That is, if they were conscious in ongoing debate in some circles.

Certainly the issue has sparked endless coverage.

Much of it framed along the lines of that old National Lampoon joke as in AI, threat or menace.

Microsoft has added new AI features to its Bing search engine

and journalists are getting a taste of its incredible and creepy capabilities.

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