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

I found myself forgetting that it was a cha-pa 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 Brooke Gladstone.

Hear that music?

It was created by Tina Talon, an assistant professor of AI in the arts at the University of Florida.

She generated it for us using artificial intelligence, prompting its creation with the words

pensive and wonder with a touch of robot.

I said, if you were a religious efficient in Israel, what religion would you be?

And this is former Google engineer Blake Lemoine, whose task was to probe Google's advanced AI chat box lambda

for signs of bias or hate.

And now, pretty much no matter what answer you give, you're going to be biased to one way or another.

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