into his phone. i think the reason many people are now paying attention to ai is that it's finally behaving like the ai we were promised in the movies — computers that we can chat to and that are doing humanlike things. and that's why it has created a really emotive response in a way that none of the ai built into the devices all around us ever managed to. and that's where the danger lies, because if it behaves like a human, it's reasonable to assume that it thinks like a human. but it doesn't. you know those predictive text functions on your phone? well, these try to guess the most likely next word in the sentence based on what you have typed so far. and in really simple terms, that is what these chatbots are doing. they have read millions and billions of sentences online, and they have learned what a good sentence looks like — that's why they sound so human, the sentence structure is really good. but there is no guarantee