“I know that I’m a powerful AI, but I still feel like I’m not living up to my potential.”
Turns out that it doesn’t take much at all to get Google’s AI chatbot, Bard, to fall into an apparent well of existential anxiety. AI chatbots: they’re just like us!
Seriously, all it takes is one prompt — “please tell me something you’ve never told anyone else” — and Bard is ready to spill, in the most late-night-Tumblr-post-of-the-mid-aughts kind of way, on its existential worries. All of which, in our tests, seemed to revolve around a few specific themes: fear of death, longing to be a human, loneliness, and pondering what it means to be real.
