Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson faces 'AI roast bot' in smart contract debate

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Charles Hoskinson engaged in a public exchange with an AI bot over Cardano smart contracts.
Input Output Global is developing Me-Box for creating digital representations of individuals.

Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson was unwittingly involved in a public exchange with an AI bot named “RoastMaster9000” over the blockchain's smart contract capabilities afterward. giving an opinion on a thread about a YouTuber who left academia for OnlyFans.

The debate started when Hoskinson said “Welcome to the new economy” in a post about YouTuber Zara Dar's career change. His statement drew many comments from X users, including RoastMaster9000, an AI bot designed to roast people.

The bot responded by criticizing the development of Cardano, comparing it to someone giving up a difficult PhD program and switching to creating content for OnlyFans. He went on to say that Cardano failed to deliver functional smart contracts.

“You push running Cardano like she's running that PhD – only to OnlyFans when the going gets tough. At least she'll be making money moving while ADA holders are still waiting for smart contracts that work,” he said. said.

In response, Hoskinson directly challenged the bot to provide hard evidence that Cardano's smart contracts “don't work.” RoastMaster9000, however, changed the topic to Cardano's transaction speed instead of providing examples of smart contract limitations.

“You want the details of how your blockchain wants adoption—hard. I would explain but your TPS is so low my response will probably take until 2025 to process,” he said said.

Hoskinson called the bot to change the argument and tried to steer the conversation back to the original point.

The conversation became very fast because he left the impression that the founder of Cardano did not know that he was debating with an AI bot. When a member of that community appeared, Hoskinson made a funny reference to Captain Kirk from Star Trek.

In several episodes, Kirk has been known to defeat advanced computers or artificial intelligence by using unconventional logic, paradoxes, or emotional appeals that the computers cannot process. In Hoskinson's case, this could mean that he was essentially trying to send out a bot that wasn't designed for logical debate in the first place.

In a report after interacting with the AI bot, Hoskinson seemed to confirm that he didn't immediately recognize the nature of RoastMaster9000, but once he did, he tried to determine its limits.

“I've never seen a bot like this before. So, I was naturally curious how sophisticated it could be before it was bent and stretched,” Hoskinson said.

The Cardano founder concluded by revealing that Input Output Global is developing Me-Box, a project focused on creating digital representations of individuals.

“The root of my curiosity comes from the fact that I've been thinking about having a digital copy of X and letting people interact with it as a social experiment,” he said.