‘Dear, did you say pastry?’: meet the ‘AI granny’ driving scammers up the wall
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The video is hilarious. But soon these scammers will be replaced by AI, then we'll have AI's trying to scam AI's...
Wouldn't it be great if they just... broke each other? Or, is this how they become self-aware? I'm not so keen on the latter.
They did experiments with AI talking to each other and it sometimes had weird results. They’d repeat nonsensical phrase over and over but somehow understand each other.
In a bizarre sort of way this might help AI evolution. With each back and forth, as the scamming and anti-scamming AIs develop themselves, the cleverness they develop may have other wider applications ....