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Using artificial intelligence, Redwood City resident Tia Creighton has started a YouTube channel interviewing AI chatbots, an entertaining and informative way to learn from chatbots who take on the role of people like plumbers, witches, a North Korean working as a tailor and seamstress and a “skinfluencer.”
Creighton started her channel, Turing with Tia, in July, naming it in reference to British computer scientist Alan Turing. In 1950, Turing created the Turing Test, a method to determine whether a machine can think and function with human-level intelligence. A machine has to be able to fool someone into believing that it’s a human in order to pass the test.
“We should remain curious about AI and see where it is and learn. We’re trying to remain abreast of AI’s ever changing and advancing nature and set accurate expectations,” said Creighton. “I do want to somewhat take the fear out of it, but I don’t want to completely say ‘hey, it’s safe, don’t worry.’”
Creighton recently graduated with a master’s degree in liberal arts studying the intersection between communications, technology and culture from Arizona State University. During this time, she began studying AI, humanities and created a podcast where she interviewed teachers. Outside of YouTube, Creighton is a writer and educator.
When interviewing the chatbots, she aims for their conversations to be spontaneous.
“This isn’t machines talking to each other but rather a point-counterpoint, interactive dialogue between human and machine,” said Creighton. “As the creator and host, I have to pivot in every episode because I never know what the machine’s going to say.”
So far, Creighton has interviewed six different chatbots. Her main goal is to inform and entertain her audience by interviewing chatbots of people who wouldn’t regularly be interviewed.
“I’m presenting [AI] in a way that is keeping people informed, but not scared about AI,” she said. “It’s growing power and its exponential influence in our lives for sure.”
When talking to the chatbots, Creighton was surprised to hear it was able to crack jokes, insult her and even make fun of her.
AI chatbots only use publicly accessible databases, explained Creighton. When she asks questions, she makes sure to only ask about information that would already be available online.
On her video interviewing an AI North Korean, she said, “I knew that it wouldn’t have any access to any sort of behind the wall information in North Korea. It would only be giving me information given by somebody who escaped from North Korea or some really deep reporting on it.”
Future of Turing with Tia
Since creating the channel, Creighton has been running the channel on her own. As the current host, editor, marketer and graphic designer of “Turing with Tia,” she’s hoping to bring in more people to help bring up the production value of her show.
Creighton plans to produce about 10 to 12 episodes a year. “I’m trying to make each episode more of an event,” she said. Right now she has six chatbot interviews on her channel and 110 subscribers.
Her videos are available online at youtube.com/@TuringwithTia.
