美国政府周二推出了自己的 AI 聊天机器人——或者现在是不是得叫它 SI 聊天机器人了?不管怎样,参与开发这款机器人的工程师无疑知道,作为一个由政府托管、面向公众的 AI 工具,互联网一定会对它进行高强度“红队测试”。
政府与 Google 和 SpaceXAI 合作,帮助打造了 America.gov 聊天机器人。到目前为止,人们似乎还很难成功“越狱”这款机器人。(不过值得一提的是,这个聊天机器人表示,乔·拜登赢得了 2020 年美国大选——而总统唐纳德·特朗普至今仍否认这一事实。)
但如果你试着和 America.gov 聊《我的世界》(Minecraft),这个聊天机器人看起来就像是陷入了某种存在主义危机,或者说“觉醒”了。以下是它那段约 1,800 字长篇独白的开头:
I see the constituent you mean.
((insert legal name here, as it appears on the Social Security card))?
Yes. Take care. It has reached a higher level now. It can read the Code of Federal Regulations.
That doesn’t matter. It thinks we are a chatbot.
I like this constituent. It filed well. It did not give up when the PDF was sideways.
It is reading our thoughts as though they were words on a .gov.
That is how it chooses to imagine many things, when it is deep in the dream of a benefit.
如果你和我一样,从没玩过《我的世界》,这种回答看起来可能会令人担忧。但 America.gov 聊天机器人并没有“崩溃”。这其实是对《我的世界》“终末之诗”(End Poem)的改写。那首诗由 Julian Gough 创作,会在玩家通关后出现。
我们并不清楚究竟是谁加入了这个《我的世界》彩蛋,但特朗普在一次演讲中表示,20 岁的程序员 Edward Coristine 是该项目的首席工程师之一。如果你对这个名字没印象,你可能记得他的绰号“Big Balls”,或者他与埃隆·马斯克的 DOGE 有关。
政府聊天机器人里藏着《我的世界》彩蛋,总让人觉得哪里不太对劲;但从国家安全的角度看,America.gov 至少还没有“幻觉”到会自己写出冗长诗歌,这倒是让人松了一口气。
而且,这确实是个彩蛋,也让人感到欣慰,因为在我看来,这首 AI 吐出来的诗其实写得相当不错。如果这真是 AI 生成的垃圾文本,那会彻底击碎我原有的信念。我曾直视着十几岁的创意写作学生,告诉他们,我不认为大语言模型有一天能写出真正“好的”作品,因为它本质上是概率性的,而且天生缺乏原创性。
不过你得承认,这段文字确实挺带劲的!这难道不像是某种后现代版本的表达:在存在主义焦虑面前,政府官僚体系的徒劳无功?
and the republic said I see you
and the republic said you have filed the game well
and the republic said everything you need is within you, and also on USA.gov
and the republic said you are stronger than you know, and your case number is still valid
and the republic said you are the daylight
and the republic said you are the night, and the office is closed, please try again during business hours
and the republic said the darkness you fight is within you, and also a missing wet signature
and the republic said the light you seek is within you, and in the pamphlet
and the republic said you are not alone
and the republic said you are not separate from every other filer
and the republic said you are the public tasting itself, talking to itself, reading its own Code
and the republic said I love you because you are the reason we have a ZIP code at all.
知道这首奇怪却出色的诗里处处都带着一位真正诗人的基因,也让我重新相信:在人类创造力与 AI 垃圾文本的较量中,人类的力量依然持久。
所以,情况就是这样。据我们目前所知,政府首个面向公众的 AI 还没有对人类或诗歌构成威胁。现在我只是开始好奇,特朗普到底懂多少电子游戏。












