This week’s episode of LastWeekTonight with John Oliver covers CocaineBear, James O’Keefe, and A.I. technology like ChatGPT. Watch the main segment here:
In the new episode of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, it was finally time to tackle a subject that’s taken over the Internet over the last few months: Artificial Intelligence, and, most specifically, the text-generating platform ChatGPT. The episode explained how that online tool works, and what’s fun and what’s worrying about it, but not before establishing Pedro Pascal, Dolly Parton, and Cocaine Bear as national treasures and showcasing raps about cats.
The first segment of the show focused on Fox News reporters sounding off about why Julia Roberts hasn’t made an appearance in Ohio after the East Palestine train derailment — according to them, this is a real Erin Brockovich tragedy, and the actor should be there. Right after that, the show segued into James O’Keefe.
COLLIDER VIDEO OF THE DAY A.I. Is Here to Take Over O’Keefe took a bit of a chunk of the program, which got considerably longer with the main segment. On it, John Oliver drew attention to the fact that we’ve already been using A.I. for some time but in “harmless” ways like adjusting the frame on smart TVs and working face recognition on your phone. However, the use of A.I.
And that’s not even the worst part. Since A.I. feeds off content from the Internet in order to learn patterns, one inevitable path that a bot might take is taking on racist slurs and assuming a conspiracy theorist persona since they find countless social media accounts that are directed at that. That’s why Microsoft’s Tay Tweets was launched as an A.I.-oriented Twitter account and its plug was pulled a mere 24 hours after. On the plus side, A.I.
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