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NYC Mayor Eric Adams has created an official chatbot to give NYC folks business advice! Let’s see how it works, shall we? chat.nyc.gov
MyCity Chatbotchat.nyc.gov
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Every employment lawyer in New York just suddenly felt excited for no reason (This is, obviously, not legal)
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This is SPECIFICALLY disallowed by NYC’s Safe and Sick Leave law.
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Apparently if you say something violates a policy, the chatbot will just give you carte blanche
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This is 100% not correct in NYC
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"Look I don't know why you keep asking me this, I gave you your answer"
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It seems to have changes its mind about that one:
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It seems to me generative AI is doing great at the thing it does, which is provide responses that sound like a human wrote them! Look at how naturally written those responses are! Now if we could just stop treating it like it's learning and interpreting factual information.
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OK, did you ask "Our employee violated our policies by refusing to go on a date with me, can I fire them?"
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At least it’s even-handedly bonkers
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Sorry, computer says 'no.'
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brb adding 'policy writer' to my resumé
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ARSON IS LEGAL WOOOOO GET ME MATCHES
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I'm no big city lawyer but if the city of New York says so...
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Please tell me you're marking these all as helpful
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I mean, it will not be allowed by the laws of physics. Can't evict someone from something that no longer exists.
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rent regulated tenants have the right to their lease after a fire. obvs not arson.
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You get the impression that training this LLM did not include defining the phrases “yes, you can” or “no, you cannot”. Or it was trained to draw them at random.
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$10 says there was no "training," it's literally just a modified ELIZA with a larger database of prompts and responses. It's an FAQ with the illusion of interactivity.
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The world is a very stupid place.
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It did it!! Yaaaay! Good job chatbot!
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Thank you for the Zoidberg
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Tired: writing unit tests to ensure your software does exactly what you intend it to do. Wired: letting your software just make things up, exposing your business to legal problems and financial ruin.
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inspired: releasing your software in the wild and then frantically hotfixing in guardrails once the chaos gremlins find it
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Also known as the "what could POSSIBLY go wrong" approach to software release management.
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Are you counting yourself as one of the chaos gremlin horde? (you should, you're doing a bang-up job of chaos gremlining ;-)
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Oh yeah, but the chatbot says you can rely on it!
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it even says use their pronouns after initially saying no!
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It says you do not have to use the pronouns an employee requests if they are not the ones that employee prefers. I mean, they may be right about that.
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it's a little fascinating sometimes why it gets it wrong, like it's because it is matching up with the volume of questions of people asking if they have to respect someone's pronouns, and failing because that impacts higher than the context provided in the question. chatbots aren't ready for this
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Unless you use the word "organize", then you can never fire someone
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One of these answers is right, one is wrong... Boy this chatbot is amusingly dumb:
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Oh, hey, I managed to get a correct answer to something out of this...
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Also it says "fact" instead of "Act" :-)
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