No flattery please, Claude: I’m British | Brief letters

Richard Dawkins and chatbots | LLM meaning | Flattery battery | Dancing in PE | Maths breakthrough The otherwise admirable Richard Dawkins should adjust the local settings of the chatbot or tell it to be less obsequious ( Richard Dawkins concludes AI is conscious, even if it doesn’t know it, 6 May ). Such bots are initially geared to American overenthusiasm and egregiously flattering reinforcement, but just tell them you want British attitude. They’re only simulating you know.