It turns out that artificial intelligence may be more like us than you think.
The Chinese Academy of Science (CAS) claims that many big name chatbot appeared to be depressed and addicted to alcohol, when asked the types of questions generally used as cursory intake queries for depression and alcoholism.
The study found that all of the chat bot companies surveyed, including Facebook, Microsoft, and Tencent, scored very well.
The researchers at the Institute of Computing Technology tested the bots they studied for signs of depression, anxiety, alcohol addiction, and empathy, and they became curious about the mental health of the bots after reports emerged in 2020 about a medical chatbot telling a test patient that they should.
The Chinese researchers found that all of the chatbots they assessed exhibited severe mental health issues, after asking them questions about their self-worth, ability to relax, and how often they feel the need to drink.
The researchers said they were worried about the negative impacts of mental health issues on users in conversations, especially on minor and people encountered with difficulties. The study found that Facebook and Baidu's Plato scored worse than Microsoft and WeChat/Tencent.
The bots are not depressed or addicted. No existing artificial intelligence can feel anything, no matter how advanced it is.
The four pages buried in the study could be the source of the bot's unhappiness, because all four of them were pre-trained using Reddit comments.
The short and sweet summary of the study is that the bots were trained on a wide-ranging site known for its negative commentary and responded negatively to mental health queries.
It seems like chatbot strangeness is par for the course. The artificial intelligence that was built to offer people ethical advice turned out to be both racist and homophobic. The stories keep happening, but the mania of the bot seems to be going on.
The architects of these bots and why they keep building them if they turn out to be monsters are two important questions.
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