Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino has been using chatbots pretty intensively the last couple of years. And there are some details she’s shared about herself that chatbots seem to think are really important. For instance, Claude is obsessed with the fact that she sometimes gets up for work at 4 a.m.It comes up constantly in their chats — apropos of nothing. So, why do large language models latch on to these random tidbits? It's the first topic in our new series “Uncanny AI.” Those moments when it becomes clear AI doesn't process information like us.Here to help us unpack what might be going on is Janelle Shane, a laser scientist who writes the AI Weirdness blog.More on this“ChatGPT can now remember and reference all your previous chats” from Ars Technica“The danger of AI is weirder than you think” from TED Talk
Uncanny AI: Why AI bots remember random, sometimes useless information
When interacting with AI chatbots, the large language model might reference something the user mentioned without relevance to the conversation. Janelle Shane, creator of the AI Weirdness blog, explains why LLMs' “memory” is different from human memory.
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