…and it did a halfway decent job. But algorithms alone can’t save endangered species. For that you need people who care and who act.
When a certain search engine recently asked me to test out its new artificial intelligence chatbot, I thought “How bad will this be?”
After all, tech companies love to position their AI systems as solutions, but many experts fear they will result in waves of bad data and disinformation. That’s not going to help a world plagued by runaway climate change and an extinction crisis that threatens to push a million species into oblivion.
But at the same time, artificial intelligence and machine learning have some truly wonderful implications for conservation — anything that speeds up data analysis is welcome, for example. Could that potential benefit carry over to a chatbot designed to spit out easy answers to users’ questions?
I wanted to see how good the systems really are, so I gave it a test — I asked the chatbot how to solve the extinction crisis.
No small task.
So here they are: the chatbot’s 10 ways to fight the extinction crisis (in italics), along with my [The Author's] interpretation and response.
We Asked an AI Chatbot How to Fight the Extinction Crisis • The Revelator
When a certain search engine recently asked me to test out its new artificial intelligence chatbot, I thought “How bad will this be?”
After all, tech companies love to position their AI systems as solutions, but many experts fear they will result in waves of bad data and disinformation. That’s not going to help a world plagued by runaway climate change and an extinction crisis that threatens to push a million species into oblivion.
But at the same time, artificial intelligence and machine learning have some truly wonderful implications for conservation — anything that speeds up data analysis is welcome, for example. Could that potential benefit carry over to a chatbot designed to spit out easy answers to users’ questions?
I wanted to see how good the systems really are, so I gave it a test — I asked the chatbot how to solve the extinction crisis.
No small task.
So here they are: the chatbot’s 10 ways to fight the extinction crisis (in italics), along with my [The Author's] interpretation and response.
We Asked an AI Chatbot How to Fight the Extinction Crisis • The Revelator