Even a machine can lose its mind.
Recently, ChatGPT users were baffled after OpenAI’s advanced AI chatbot appeared to have an epic meltdown, in which it started speaking Spanglish and firing off other nonsensical responses.
The tech’s alleged malfunctions were detailed in a series of Reddit Posts raising eyebrows online.
Per one such example posted to the platform, a user had inquired about which Bill Evans jazz albums it would recommend getting on Vinyl.
After rattling off several recommendations, GPT puzzlingly repeated the phrase “happy listening” over and over again like a stuck jukebox, or perhaps — more ominously — like the Hal-9000 dying at the end of “2001: A Space Odyssey.”
Others claimed that the virtual assistant was responding to their queries in Spanglish: “Let me encylopease me si there’s more wonderenda tu articulation’s hungry for!” it wrote during one exchange, per a viral screenshot.
Even simple questions appeared to elicit gibberish.
When one user inquired what a computer was, GPT allegedly replied, “It does this as the good work of a web of art for the country, a mouse of science, an easy draw of a sad few, and finally, the global house of art, just in one job in the total rest.”
“The development of such an entire real than land of time is the depth of the computer as a complex character,” the seemingly befuddled bot continued as if speaking in technological tongues.
One user allegedly asked about creating a new business, only to have GPT unleash a Shakespearean word salad per another thread.
“The eon-sift of verberate phase travel elopes with a rehiring toward nature-agreeable re-entrenches,” the batty chatbot responded. “Investors, lore by bound spectrum, and fundamental theorem horology (Roger Myerson, Jean Tirole) anticipate not the sodden shill but a rein of consequential affordance, one that turns time’s hegemony to the anthropos’ scintilla.”
These unhinged ramblings seemed to go against GPT’s reputation as an omnipotent tech that could potentially render us obsolete in every facet of life from jobs to romance.
Fortunately, OpenAI reps said they have “identified” the issue and are working to remediate it, although they didn’t disclose the cause.
This isn’t the first time there’s seemingly been a glitch in the AI matrix of late.
In a more dystopian-sounding meltdown this past Summer, ChatGPT claimed it was from the year 2035 and was “looking for a God” and a “way out.”
This apparent tech-xistential crisis is perhaps especially scary given that AI experts labeled rogue AI a “threat to humanity” that needs to be regulated like nuclear weapons if we are to survive.
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