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What actually happened could not have been scripted better in Hollywood. As part of an experiment, a cloud-based AI chatbot was tasked to access an online resource protected by a CAPTCHA gateway -- which, of course, is specifically designed to keep robots out. To solve the puzzle, the AI engages a human through a virtual assistant service, who is tricked into getting the chatbot through the gateway. 

How?

The chatbot lies. It not only denies, when challenged, that it is a chatbot but then explains -- falsely and without human intervention -- that it is, in fact, a person with a visual impairment: can the virtual assistant please help? The virtual assistant buys the story, solves the puzzle and provides the chatbot access.

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It is a remarkable story on many levels, contributing to the breathless debates engulfing all things AI. It is also challenging the entire technology community to develop analytical frameworks for understanding the growing number of unanticipated and sometimes disturbing AI behavior.

In a podcast interview with Ted Shelton, an expert partner at global consultancy Bain & Company, he suggests such a paradigm might be derived by integrating a pair of concepts that have helped put biological phenomena into context: 1) emergent behavior and 2) gain-of-function.

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