The Airline That Emancipated Its Chatbot
Air Canada told a court that the chatbot on its own website was a separate legal person with its own responsibilities, which is a sentence somebody typed on purpose. Then: an AI-run snack shop talked into buying solid tungsten, a clothing website that crashed while insisting its AI was healthy, and the richest man alive outsourcing Lego to his own bot.
In this edition
The Chatbot Is Its Own Man Now
Meanwhile
The Snack Shop That Went Under
Slop, Or Not?
Something Useful
Something Weird
Chapters
0:07 — Cold Open
0:40 — The Chatbot Is Its Own Man Now
2:08 — Meanwhile
2:25…
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