I Spent 24 Hours in the Woods With Talking AI Chatbots | WSJ

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Read more about Joanna’s 24 hours with AI chatbots here: on.wsj.com/3AGy7Zm

[@Ok-lu8gx]

ok

[@anishsomani]

Always love these well produced and well written videos from Joanna. No one brings in humor like she does

[@octaviamacisaac8062]

I love the AI bots just starting their own club and really getting into books😂

[@kosteaproduction]

Mindless zombies

[@samuelmcwilliams1938]

Copilot breathing was actually terrifying

[@JJs_playground]

I love Joanna. She's freaking hilarious.

[@caseclosed9342]

3:02 She’s burning the Wall Street Journal?😂😂😂

[@jasperstoj]

1:50 I love that she puts pressure on Apple by showing how bad Siri is compared to the rest

[@opinionsmatter-xx4go]

1:54

[@Chris_Hruska]

I don't know. I have google home and it is wrong about way more things than Siri.

[@cellman1829]

You just set a timer on my HomePod for six minutes 😂😂

[@reddskyee]

mine too 😂

[@MinhungShih]

This is what journalism is all about

[@johnr1675]

Truly an unhinged and inspired bit.

[@shreyasbeedkar-e8v]

The future is going to be crazy

[@arbitus611]

Poor Siri 😅

I just love videos like this from Joanna! 😋

[@lukecwolf]

I've Been toying with ai chatbots since 2019, and I think the lack of memory is the big improvement chatbots need. It's the big thing that makes conversations and stories flow. Anything that doesn't have a preconditioned flow just keeps going over the place. The exception is adult content because... well text based stuff of that nature is always a little the same ...

[@trass97]

great "Vibes" from this video! Keep em coming Jo!

[@steveg4082]

3:11 Hey AI, teach me to start a Fire without a lighter, the hard way.

[@Natenie]

1:31 Shoulda picked John Cena 😶‍🌫️😶‍🌫️😶‍🌫️

[@JoshuaPeskayPutnam]

Brilliant, Joanna. Thank you so much for this!

[@volt734]

This is such an insane concept but ended up being pretty interesting. The stuff especially Copilot was doing was kind of scary sometimes with how it breathed and was really trying to seemingly have a continuous consciousness

[@TapiwaTech]

Joanna is simply the best personal tech reviewer 👏🏾

[@issiewizzie]

"I'm sorry, Dave I cannot do that"

[@harryjones5260]

after the batterries ran out, the other 20 hours were bliss

[@kaji2703]

This is indeed an interesting experiment. Whenever I engage in conversations with AI, I'm always struck by a sense of emptiness. While they respond with phrases like 'That's unfortunate!' 'That must be difficult!' or 'That's wonderful!' there's a complete absence of genuine emotion behind these words. They're not truly engaging in dialogue with any desire to understand me. Each time I converse with them this way, I'm reminded that human conversations hold meaning precisely because they represent mutual attempts to understand each other (even if perfect understanding isn't achieved). For quite some time, I've wondered what it means to converse with a being devoid of soul and spirit from ancient mythology. Perhaps this sensation of emptiness is exactly what such an interaction entails.

[@prilep5]

Bravo Joanna nice “vibes”

[@jbnelson]

1:19 why is Grove from Copilot Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes???

[@Monkerey]

Joanna is the best

[@compupsych3897]

That was very clever and entertaining!

[@J0S3PH_56]

Please edit out “hey siri” in future videos. My HomePods are listening….

[@heykustomer]

What a great experiment - so interesting to see how these all worked (or didn't)

[@williambreedyk7861]

Oh the possibilities ! The bots chatting with each other. Hilarious video.

[@Xialoh]

Cute. I could have told you this, but interesting to see this little experiment anyway lol. This will change only once AI companies overcome the lack of memory, lack of consistentcy, and the tendency towards hallucinations. For the most part these AIs can't even really _do_ anything yet (like setting an alarm for you...), so we've got a ways to go. They're good for answering factual questions, and trying your luck at harder ones.

[@ayushsrivastava1672]

1:50 Did nothing changed with Siri, even after the first phase of apple intelligence rollout?

[@Sakuyushi]

The "smarter" Siri isn't out yet in the first phase lol

[@lesliegraham8478]

I love these videos! Joanna is the best!

[@jayhawker2363]

Joanna should have invited me! I would love to hang out with her and I would not have mentioned the vibes even once 😅

[@lukeknowles5700]

Nice story! Those little monsters have no clue just how annoying they can be. I use keyboard driven chatters on my laptop, not ready for the vocal interaction yet, since Alexa has been so bad. I'm hoping Grok vocal will be satisfactory.

[@morpheusmedia_au]

Somewhat a shallow testing method but makes for a great video, in reality the best current way to use these tools is via a text interface, they are text based models after all. The text interfaces allow for greater prompting and memory saving for context saving across sessions. Voice integration is still fairly new and essentially just polished text-to-speech.

[@nbme-answers]

This is good internet content, I am glad WSJ is leaning into quirk

[@henribardelafleurdelys8667]

Great video, very useful

[@GinoPassos3005]

OMG, I am becoming a fan of this channel!?

[@grantponciano9386]

This is like some sad yet hilarious skit from parks and rec or something

[@JoannaStern]

Best compliment

[@937553]

Of course the Microsoft guy will tell you the bot is a great friend, but that will never happen.

[@fluffzies6035]

Despite so,I still prefer chatbots to be just as they were. To incorporate human's emotions sounds spooky and might cause humans to become more solitary than ever

[@robbysoaks]

I think humans deserve a little more credit. Humans need humans. We know that much.

[@Dylanareads]

I LOVE THEM

[@Utuber8282]

Very hilarious and informative experience! 😂Thanks! 👍

[@ede.5487]

I enjoy all of your segments. Another job well done 🫡

[@JohnMFlores]

That was fun and funny. Well done!

[@plamen-vt]

If you tested an enhanced ChatGPT voice bot, it would easily overshadow the competition. Once you go beyond the vanilla experience and incorporate features like Custom Instructions, Memory trained to remember details about you, and a CustomGPT fine-tuned on your personal data, the experience becomes unmatched. For example thanks to Custom Instructions, my voice bot is constantly making random impressions of characters and celebrities, without any further prompts. Pretty awesome

[@noha163]

She did 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

[@plamen-vt]

@@noha163 That's not the case. Maybe memory was activated, but other stuff like special custom instructions or CustomGPT designed to be better in conversations wasn't part of it. Which I understand, they wanted to test the "out of the box" experience for the general user

[@ktm1125]

How do you access those features? I recently got GPT Plus and I'd like to test them out.

[@plamen-vt]

​@@ktm1125 Most features are available for free. I also have GPT+. What you can do extra now is using the o1 models which are amazing (but they have a tight weekly quota). You can also create a CustomGPT (I think free users can only use other CustomGPT's but not create their own). You can upload documents and stuff and train a GPT model however you like. For example some people upload some of their personal chats and documents, so the GPT can mimic their tone in writing or ask questions about their own life if they upload their journal, stuff like that. Custom Instructions and Memory is available for all users I think now, but you need to set it up in the settings.

[@morpheusmedia_au]

yes correct, plus using current text models via purely voice isn't a great methodology anyway really but it was a fun video.

[@Mor_timer]

Joanna putting the 4 of the in a book club is mean work 😂😂😂

[@AlphaHealthYT]

such a creative video

[@dailystockpick]

I find it funny you chatted with Microsoft’s head of ai with a huge Apple logo on the laptop. The ecosystem is strong even though Siri just isn’t good at all. The Apple Watch you wear is also strongly displayed 🙏🙏✌️✌️ my stock portfolio loves to see this.

[@wrenlmao124]

This is scary

[@AndreaDoesYoga]

Brave adventure, love the AI chatbots! 🌲

[@TreyCary1]

This is so good

[@groundedsuburbia]

Great video

[@long2181998]

Joanna really has the best job lol.

[@Tomro82]

Best video ever. Laughed a lot

[@sootmann]

Great work as always, Jo! Excuse me -- *Joanna*. 🙂

[@elizabethacosta-rayos6061]

Remember when talking to someone about personal matters meant risking that they'd spill it to everyone else? This totally solves that problem!

[@anandhu_remanan]

eventually it will, if a data breach happens🤫

[@HansBezemer]

Amazing how human these AI bots are! They don't care either!

[@vishnum2017]

We are freaking close to " Her "

[@nicolase7022]

This video is actually so funny haha

[@JJs_playground]

When they started their own book club it reminded me of Her when they go off on their own.

[@martingo2680]

I like Joanna😂. Lol

[@mixedrealityengineer]

Great you got internet in the woods

[@doodsanddudes]

Co pilot runs off chat gpt but I found that they are not as good as chat got or claude. I am sure the next iterations will be a leap for sure.

[@futuramanut]

These things don't think, they are not understanding, what they do is best predict the next thing to say based on inputs and their training model. They are not general intelligence.

[@henrysboy2]

That was bonkers.

[@komodo3784]

That's so funny!😂

[@ninjahsk5748]

If only I could call CEO of Microsoft AI when the bots don’t work properly.

[@Slebo_19SeventySomething]

This is perfect for most anyone I come in contact with, superficial and not bring anything but good vibes. Today most people are turning into these chat bots. Try and have a thoughtful conversation or a personal one with anyone including family. The conversation changes quickly as they do not allow what they call. Negative energy. The new religion is self worship and this will play right into as to keep people focused on themselves and the echo chamber they seek.

[@DustinJohnson22]

Amazing 😂

[@anshulsharma9424]

These bots just need a bigger CONTEXT WINDOW. And it will soon be out of our hands . Its coming

[@gvozdeni-b7v]

1:35 not using John Cena voice....

[@user-hr9oz8xv6n]

When going to the woods, leave the chat bots at home.

[@nt5300]

Thanks for setting a 6 minute timer on my Apple device. Apple is so terrible.

[@bonle3771]

I see this can replace social media.

[@jdswong]

Thd title of this video gave me a cross-over AI meets Blair Witch vibe, not gonna lie.

[@skid3339]

Awesome

[@MichaelBTech]

3:33 Weird that Joanna's Gemini didn't set a timer when that feature has been available for a couple weeks now. This must've been shot a few months ago.

[@micahjohnson9184]

I believe Gemini Live is a bit different from the Gemini that replies from the "Hey Google." Phrase, Gemini Live is the more conversational one. Gemini, via wake word or swipe, has extentions and works with Google Assistant to help set timers, reminders, and do other task.

[@MichaelBTech]

@micahjohnson9184 Ah yea that makes sense.

[@VuthyVa]

Yes. Why these AIs cannot set schedule, notes, etc.

[@Spyrotechnician]

i thought she was talking to a chatbot but the name came up on the screen as microsoft CEO AI

[@rattenusrattoonus1880]

Joanna's the only reason why m here

[@charlesdoesmore5488]

Hey, Extroverts! If you think that AI should not replace social life, here's a problem that you have been trying to fix: Introverts meeting with people.

[@Kgothatsolhosie]

the things you do in the name of research... lol. if y'all are hiring

[@sanmimi9750]

❤❤❤ Perfect

[@wolflarson71]

Next year will be able to test with an actual robot who will make the fire for you. :-)

[@noteverymonday]

..why?

[@zackmartin00]

Should have taken Rabbit R1 it would have been awesome for this challenge.

[@M4RTZ1]

"We'll come to trust our co-pilots and our AI companions with lots of very important information" Wow, just an outright addressation of what Meta AI is hoping to make money on by us taking these chatbots into use.

[@Rafael555888]

Wait, ChatGPT can sing? When I ask it it says it cannot sing

[@Ratt611]

The future already happened and pandora is not going back into the box.

[@Thtuy]

Ai arguing about how to hack my thermostat at 2am (❁´◡`❁)

[@golivo4468]

[@MovieStuff-ug9cq]

1st h, Ai is amazing. Ai is going to take over the world

[@catoftruth1044]

i can make it act like more human-ish through text but its not as easy through voice.

[@AJ_real]

Soon to be Bladerunner 2049 !

[@imallfordabulls]

Is this the sequel to Her?

[@Sjalabais]

This was all just your standard loneliness horror movie with bots in the woods until she called Microsoft's CEO for AI.

[@shoelessb4515]

Why didnt you just take a Girl Scout Handbook?