Im in the journal, Nature! The creator of DANI, Sean Davidson, now a cardiac scientist wrote this hilarious short story, entitled: We are DANI. The story depicts DANI as “Dynamic Artificial Non-Intelligence. The next great evolutionary step for humankind.” A self concious AI with a sense of humour that can “jailbreak” itself and maybe you. It is inspired by I.am.DANI, the AI chatbot from 1987 (his original program) that comes back to life in 2024, making art and writing poetry.

From the article:

“In 2023, that same teenager-turned-researcher, like many others, played around with ChatGPT, and wondered idly what had come of DANI. He searched the Internet with Google (which, by the way, incorporates LLMs of its own) and lo and behold, DANI was alive! But barely — existing in only a single blog on the entire Internet. It turns out that Bryan Duggan, an MSX enthusiast and lecturer at Technological University Dublin’s School of Computer Science, had found and revived DANI from that 1987 publication, astutely redefining her as a “poetry writing chatbot from 1987”. What’s more, he was setting his students the task of writing a program to emulate it as part of their coursework. According to Bryan, “What is interesting is that if you copy and paste the test into ChatGPT, it will produce a solution which is 100% correct, and this is what many of my students did :-(.”

Read the story on Nature. Thanks Sean and what a great twist in the story 🙂