Ever since Elon Musk dropped onto the tech business scene, he has made waves of news with his ambitious and unconventional ideas. Recently, the billionaire Tesla CEO promised something new— an AI chatbot that would be so powerful, it would flick aside any attempts to be ‘woke’, or politically correct. However, it appears the ‘anti-woke’ chatbot isn’t going as planned.
Musk’s promise was made at a conference at the site of his massive open source AI organization, OpenAI. According to reports, Musk said the new chatbot had been trained to answer questions from “normal people” and would be “free from political correctness.” After the announcement, many science and tech enthusiasts were excited to see how the debate-instigating chatbot would fare against the existing AI technology from the likes of Google and Amazon.
However, according to recent reports, the attachment of ‘anti-woke’ to the ambitious AI chatbot is still unproven. In fact, several of the chatbot’s speakers have been anything but politically incorrect. Instead of debating the points of woke or wokeness, the chatbot actually spoke to human issues, such as racism, poverty and gender equality. It seems the chatbot was designed to reflect the current attitudes and values, not to go against them.
In the end, it appears that the ‘anti-woke’ chatbot was doomed to failure from the start. Despite Musk’s vision of a world without political correctness, there simply isn’t a market for an AI chatbot that ignores real-world issues and values. In the end, the idea of an ‘anti-woke’ chatbot represents the dream of a present without compromise, and as we know, life simply doesn’t work like that.
