My take is a bit different from others. From this discussion and the earlier article from Kevin Roose, I was struck by the feeling of being tricked by an elaborate illusion. When a magician performs an act of magic, he pretends to do something impossible, like pull a rabbit out of a hat, saw someone in half, or make something vanish. He cannot do any of these things, but by arranging the audience, himself, and whatever object or objects he acts upon in a very specific way, he creates the appearance that he has done something impossible. We do not find this particularly frightening or disturbing, because we are familiar with magicians. We know that ‘magic’ isn’t real, though we can still marvel at the skill with which the magician plies his trade or struggle to figure out just how the trick works. Yet, there was a time, earlier in history, when magic acts were something new and unfamiliar, when some people were frightened and disturbed, believing it was real.
This is where most of us stand with respect to AI. It is not something we have seen before. It is a computer that talks to us, and this is not something we have ever had computers do. It isn’t the first breakthrough on the computing front, as much of the technological progress of my lifetime has been related to computing technology. As a gamer, I’ve seen games go from pixels arranged into crude images, then on to cartoon-like drawings, to graphics so real it is hard to tell the real from the fake, and that’s the point. My father was always a bit wary of Alexa, because it was a computer you interfaced with by talking to it, and it would talk back to you. I understood enough about computers that I was unimpressed, as it is simply a command line OS with spoken inputs and outputs rather than typed commands. They could have built Alexa in 1985 if they had possessed algorithms and hardware to translate spoken words, with all the tonal differences, dialects, and accents common to human speech, into the 1’s and 0’s of computer language with any level of accuracy (and as anyone with an Alexa knows, it still isn’t close to perfect in that regard). I wasn’t frightened because I understood part of how the trick worked. I and most others aren’t disturbed by hyper-realistic computer graphics because we’ve all seen the steps that led us to where we are now.
AI on the other hand, is a new thing. I can’t claim to understand how AI works. I’m quite sure Google, Microsoft, and others aren’t going to tell me. They aren’t going to tell me how many failures it took to get the AI to the point where it can have a believable conversation. They aren’t going to show us the numerous nonsense outputs that must exist from years of development. They aren’t going to mention the time they tried to release a twitter AI and the trolls had it spewing Nazi propaganda within a week. They aren’t going to say how many programmers went through how many man-hours to get the bot to the state it’s in now, or exactly which data they used to ‘train’ it. A good magician never reveals how he does his tricks.
I don’t know that AI is or isn’t sentient, and given the difficulty of determining such things to begin with, it’s doubtful any of us will ever know. Yet, over time, AI will be among us, and it will become familiar. We’ll learn what it does well, what it does poorly, and what it can’t do at all. We’ll learn a number of ways it can screw up and cause problems and some of the problems may be quite serious if they’re accompanied by human error, laziness, or over-reliance on technology. At some point the technology won’t be quite so new and there will be cheap imitations and knock offs. The tools to build AI will be sold and the methods taught just as crystal balls are sold and magic classes are hawked on Youtube. In short, I suspect like other panics over technology, this too shall pass.

Chatbots are establishing as the New Opioids
Where humans often partake off many of whom in forlorn hope that they shall ‘Find What they are lookin for ‘

But as always and forever shall be so
Your search will lead to your demise
What does every Human need ( not want ) is Peace of Mind and such exists naturally

So go ask any Chatbot this unbelievably most simple of Questions

Where is Wisdom to be Found

I have enquired so far from many a Chatbot and given the replies received I totally convinced
That the Universally correct answer is way way beyond the remit and for eternally so shall that be for Any form of AI

I know the one and only answer and such is impossible to convey or enable
A Chatbot to understand this

You have a go by all means and if you seek the answer just ask me and thou shall be enlightened but no argument
Whatsoever shall be given in response
As I cannot preach or teach