Tilly Norwood, an AI-generated 'actress,' is having a rough time on its first press tour. The production company that created it, Particle6 Group, has made it available for 75 simultaneous interviews with journalists, and it seems to be making mistakes in all of them. (I was not invited to speak with it, and frankly, I cannot imagine why Particle6 didn't want to schedule that meeting.) When AI bots try to act like humans, they can be so convincing that people forget they're chatting with a computer, which can lead to dangerous outcomes. But Norwood is so surprisingly bad at talking to people that it's almost suspicious. Amanda Silberling is a senior writer at TechCrunch covering the intersection of technology and culture. She has also written for publications like Polygon, MTV, the Kenyon Review, NPR, and Business Insider. She is the co-host of Wow If True, a podcast about internet culture, with science fiction author Isabel J. Kim. Prior to joining TechCrunch, she worked as a...
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