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"Earlier this year, a Hong Kong finance worker was tricked into paying US$25
million to scammers who had used deepfake technology to pretend to be the
company’s chief financial officer in a video conference call. Thinking the
images on screen were his colleagues, the financier authorised the
multi-million dollar transfer to fraudsters posing as friends.
It’s a dramatic example, but the bamboozled office worker was far from alone in
being fooled by generative AI. This technology, which relies heavily on large
language models trained on vast amounts of data to learn and predict the
patterns of language, has become increasingly widespread since the launch of
ChatGPT in 2022.
How can we explain why some people who interact with generative AI chatbots are
so readily convinced they are having a conversation with a kind of person? The
answer may lie in the rules of conversation itself – and how they are deeply
ingrained in the way we interact with the world."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
