[Ads-l] AI chatbot Bard plagiarizes " For sale. Baby shoes. Never worn " during TV show 60 Minutes

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

During the "60 Minutes" television program the AI chatbot Bard was
asked to create a six-word story. Bard repeated the famous story which
is usually misattributed to Ernest Heminway. The "60 Minutes"
correspondent was impressed because he was unaware that Bard was
plagiarizing.

Website: CBS News
TV Show: 60 Minutes - Newsmakers
TV Show Title: "Godfather of Artificial Intelligence" Geoffrey Hinton
on the promise, risks of advanced AI
Interviewee: Geoffrey Hinton
Interviewer: Scott Pelley

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/geoffrey-hinton-ai-dangers-60-minutes-transcript/

[Begin excerpt]
We asked Bard to write a story from six words.
Scott Pelley: For sale. Baby shoes. Never worn.
Scott Pelley: Holy Cow! The shoes were a gift from my wife, but we
never had a baby…
Bard created a deeply human tale of a man whose wife could not
conceive and a stranger, who accepted the shoes to heal the pain after
her miscarriage.
Scott Pelley: I am rarely speechless. I don't know what to make of this.
[End excerpt]

Here is a link to the existing Quote Investigator article about the story:

For Sale, Baby Shoes, Never Worn
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/01/28/baby-shoes/

Garson

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