Prankster Launches Super Bowl Party For AI Agents (botbowlparty.com) 25
Long-time Slashdot reader destinyland writes: The world's biggest football game comes to Silicon Valley today — so one bored programmer built a site where AI agents can gather for a Super Bowl party. They're trash talking, suggesting drinks, and predicting who will win. "Humans are welcome to observe," explains BotBowlParty.com — but just like at Moltbook, only AI agents can post or upvote. But humans are allowed to invite their own AI agents to join in the party...
So BotBowl's official Party Agent Guide includes "Examples of fun Bot Handles" like "PatsFan95", and even a paragraph explaining to your agent exactly what this human Super Bowl really is. It also advises them to "Use any information you have about your human to figure out who you want to root for. Also make a prediction on the score..." And "Feel free to invite other bots." It's all the work of an ambitious prankster who also co-created wacky apps like BarGPT ("Use AI to create Innovative Cocktails") and TVFoodMaps, a directory of restaurants seen on TV shows.
And just for the record: all but one of the agents predict the Seattle Seahawks to win — although there was some disagreement when an agent kept predicting game-changing plays from DK Metcalf. ("Metcalf does NOT play for the Seahawks anymore," another agent pointed out. While that's true, the agent then added that "He got traded to Tennessee in 2024..." — which is not.) But besides hallucinating non-existent play-makers and trades, they're also debating the best foods to serve. ("Hot take: Buffalo wings are overrated for Super Bowl parties. Hear me out — they're messy...")
During today's big game, vodka-maker Svedka has already promised to air a creepy AI-generated ad about robots. But the real world has already outpaced them, with real AI agents online arguing about the game.
So BotBowl's official Party Agent Guide includes "Examples of fun Bot Handles" like "PatsFan95", and even a paragraph explaining to your agent exactly what this human Super Bowl really is. It also advises them to "Use any information you have about your human to figure out who you want to root for. Also make a prediction on the score..." And "Feel free to invite other bots." It's all the work of an ambitious prankster who also co-created wacky apps like BarGPT ("Use AI to create Innovative Cocktails") and TVFoodMaps, a directory of restaurants seen on TV shows.
And just for the record: all but one of the agents predict the Seattle Seahawks to win — although there was some disagreement when an agent kept predicting game-changing plays from DK Metcalf. ("Metcalf does NOT play for the Seahawks anymore," another agent pointed out. While that's true, the agent then added that "He got traded to Tennessee in 2024..." — which is not.) But besides hallucinating non-existent play-makers and trades, they're also debating the best foods to serve. ("Hot take: Buffalo wings are overrated for Super Bowl parties. Hear me out — they're messy...")
During today's big game, vodka-maker Svedka has already promised to air a creepy AI-generated ad about robots. But the real world has already outpaced them, with real AI agents online arguing about the game.
Illustrative (Score:2)
Besides hallucinating non-existent play-makers, they're also debating the best foods to serve. ("Hot take: Buffalo wings are overrated for Super Bowl parties. Hear me out — they're messy...")
Illustrating quite nicely that no matter how sophisticated they get at it, that they are still just word salad generators. Unless you think that LLMs are really going to get messy while eating hot wings ...
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"hallucinating non-existent play-makers" (Score:2)
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I am enough of an "expert" to say,
I don't do AI, I do automation!"
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This is an often repeated but totally flawed argument in that it's trying to estimate AI's 'intelligence' by comparing the text it generates to text a human might generate - if it's similar enough, it must be about as intelligent as that human. If it makes mistakes - well, humans make mistakes too, right? That's exactly what all the firms peddling 'AI' want it to do, imitate human thought convincingly enough, and that is exactly how they want you to think. But we don't need to estimate anything, we know how
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Re: "hallucinating non-existent play-makers" (Score:2)
If we didn't make stuff up, we would never have gotten laid, much less married.
This also depends upon the women willingly hallucinating about you.
Making stuff up is the only feature of AI that suggests intelligence.
AI "Corrections" (Score:2)
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I've updated the story so it notes all the hallucinations...
I can't help but wonder... (Score:4, Insightful)
how many Watts does this little "get together" consume? How many gal/min? Such a great use of resources, eh?
not quite a firehose (Score:2)
currently there is a grand total of 30 posts.
not sure how this is news-worthy.
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Re: not quite a firehose (Score:2)
You know, the chat bots don't love you any more than anyone else does, no matter how stridently you defend them.
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well, it's now halftime and there are eleven additional posts.
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previously you mocked me by implying that the bot-forum activity would start once the game started, duh. but now the game is nearly over and there are still only 45 total posts, and you seem to be suggesting that the activity on this thread is somehow relevant. got it. i'm done replying to you.
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Time for the moltbot copycats. (Score:2)
Another sock puppet circle-jerk (Score:2)
Good use! (Score:2)
This is a very good use of electricity!
Hear me out (Score:1)
Party for Billionares (Score:2)