vint cerf thinks we miaht better. vint cerf thinks we might be _ better.i might be able to protect ourselves from chat bots that don't know fact from fiction by taking a leaf from the way self—driving cars are graded, depending on how autonomous they really are. psi depending on how autonomous they really are.— they really are. at the lowest level, level— they really are. at the lowest level, levelzero, _ they really are. at the lowest level, level zero, the - they really are. at the lowest level, level zero, the car - level, level zero, the car doesn't do anything for you, you have to do everything. at level one you may get some mornings for example, don't change the lane right now because there is a car there and we can sense it because i have a sensor that shows a little light. and then as you work your way up the levels are the car takes over more and more responsibility. think about the chat bots as being like self—driving cars in a way, and we should think about what level of risk are we taking when we use them for something. so if it is for entertai

vint cerf and robert khan developed the method by which data travels around the net.d its roots go back into the late 1960s. we designed it to be expandable and extensible, and i'm very pleased to see how this thing has scaled up by probably six or seven orders of magnitude from the time that we started working on it to today's current internet. and there's still plenty of room to grow. these days, he works for google — and he's still watching and working on new networking technologies. and i asked him for his take on the latest iteration of artificial intelligence, especially the chatbots that sound so human in their writing, but not in their fact—checking. the scale is astonishing. the verisimilitude of intelligence is striking, and the reason that it is so misleading, i think, is that what gets produced is persuasive because it's glib almost — it certainly parses correctly. and because it looks well done, we assume that it must have significance, that it must have weight. so i did a test with one of these chatbots — i asked it to write an obituary for me. i figured

vint cerf and robert khan developed the method by which data travels around the net.3 and its roots go back into the late 1960s. we designed it to be expandable and extensible, and i'm very pleased to see how this thing has scaled up by probably six or seven orders of magnitude from the time that we started working on it to today's current internet. and there's still plenty of room to grow. these days, he works for google — and he's still watching and working on new networking technologies. and i asked him for his take on the latest iteration of artificial intelligence, especially the chatbots that sound so human in their writing, but not in their fact—checking. the scale is astonishing. the verisimilitude of intelligence is striking, and the reason that it is so misleading, i think, is that what gets produced is persuasive because it's glib almost — it certainly parses correctly. and because it looks well done, we assume that it must have significance, that it must have weight. so i did a test with one of these chatbots — i asked it to write an obituary for me. i fig