[takeitto]

The article and comments you are responding to is about the demo being poorly faked.

You seem to conflate this with another issue with the demo: It was so good that it seemed real, and you deem this to be deception/deceptive.

While I may share some of your concerns, I can't help but compare it to the rants against video games: unhealthy, fake social interaction. Often used by politicians without any scientific backing of their claims.

I do understand the current attraction from the general public to the unsurprising AI research going on at top labs. You don't need any relation to the field to muse about killer robot singularities and 2000 year old ethics philosophy, and no one will brand you a fool like they did to the people warning about earth-eating black holes at CERN.

[exodust]

No, I was responding to your comment, and your comment only, which is why I quoted you. I'm not conflating anything. Your tangent about "irrational fear" is what I was responding to, there's nothing more I can add to make that clearer.

You mention video games. In a video game, the interactions via voice chat, or text chat are person to person. I am not aware of any politicians calling that "fake". It's not related though, as online multiplayer gaming is a sub-set of a specific type of digital activity, whereas AI and bots and voice recognition is all-pervasive. It will be everywhere, and deserves scrutiny because you won't need to be a "gamer" to be exposed to this technology. IMHO it's vital we continuously examine the ethical concerns.