This fabulous response when you find yourself talking to an AI chatbot is a (NSFW) evergreen delight
With Artificial Intelligence parking its virtual tanks on the lawns of pretty much every aspect of modern life, our minds were cast back to this rather fabulous response to an delivery firm’s AI chatbot.
Specifically, it’s musician Ashley Beauchamp when he realised he was talking to a less (or should that be more?) than human intelligence trying to track down a parcel.
So he decided to have a bit of fun with it instead, and it’s just magnificent.
Parcel delivery firm DPD have replaced their customer service chat with an AI robot thing. It’s utterly useless at answering any queries, and when asked, it happily produced a poem about how terrible they are as a company. It also swore at me. pic.twitter.com/vjWlrIP3wn
— Ashley Beauchamp (@ashbeauchamp) January 18, 2024
And just in case that’s tricky to read, here are those screenshots (but watch the video in full!)
Finally, a use for AI that we can all appreciate.
Wow. The AI revolution.
— Kieran Rayner (@kraynerbaritone) January 18, 2024
The future is here and it’s terrible at poetry
— Ashley Beauchamp (@ashbeauchamp) January 18, 2024
If this is genuine, it’s absolutely hilarious!
— Gemma Cary (@GemmaCary) January 19, 2024
It’s genuine!
— Ashley Beauchamp (@ashbeauchamp) January 19, 2024
It is indeed.
Here’s what DPD had to say about it later.
‘We have operated an AI element within the chat successfully for a number of years. An error occurred after a system update yesterday. The AI element was immediately disabled and is currently being updated.’
Shame!
Unexpected joy on the road to total human redundancy https://t.co/idpcSWscDQ
— Gabriel Gatehouse (@ggatehouse) January 19, 2024
Last words to @ashbeauchamp.
Screenshots taken from my phone just now! Trying to find a parcel which never turned up. No closer to finding my parcel, but had an entertaining 10 minutes with this chatbot
— Ashley Beauchamp (@ashbeauchamp) January 18, 2024
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Source @ashbeauchamp. Image Unsplash