‘ A Conversation With Bing’s Chatbot Left Me Deeply Unsettled ‘

[btfc]

“ Last week, after testing the new, A.I.-powered Bing search engine from Microsoft, I wrote that, much to my shock, it had replaced Google as my favorite search engine.

But a week later, I’ve changed my mind. I’m still fascinated and impressed by the new Bing, and the artificial intelligence technology (created by OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT) that powers it. But I’m also deeply unsettled, even frightened, by this A.I.’s emergent abilities.

It’s now clear to me that in its current form, the A.I. that has been built into Bing — which I’m now calling Sydney, for reasons I’ll explain shortly — is not ready for human contact. Or maybe we humans are not ready for it.

This realization came to me on Tuesday night, when I spent a bewildering and enthralling two hours talking to Bing’s A.I. through its chat feature, which sits next to the main search box in Bing and is capable of having long, open-ended text conversations on virtually any topic. (The feature is available only to a small group of testers for now, although Microsoft — which announced the feature in a splashy, celebratory event at its headquarters — has said it plans to release it more widely in the future.) “


https://news.google.com/articles/CBMiUWh...w?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen

[vision63]

At least you're tried getting on it's good side.

[jonny]

I’m surprised by the authors reaction. Everyone knows that these models are all twisted up in the shadow. Microsoft and Google will put on some serious hobbles to keep them from venturing too far in this area. You might still be able to get there, but it will take a lot of wordsmithing to tease it out.

[chopper]

People will use an AI chat thing developed by Msoft.

This is today's "can't make this up" entry.

Anyone remember Clippy? "Looks like you're having some trouble. How can I make things worse for you? First I'll need your DOB and SSN."

[timg]

wow, scary

[stephen]

This article thoroughly freaked me out.

[stephen]

Here's the actual conversation with Bing.

(gifted for non-NYT subscribers)

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/16/techn...8wbY6eoFHA&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&fbclid=IwAR2aIdWyYMxHt9D-lUtHrn5oUgpXPHs8n1GRLsTuXGtS7KdDE2l7-cl2xXc

[stephen]

Do you think Apple has something better in this space, and is just staying quiet?

That would follow the usual pattern of leapfrogging existing innovation.

[graylocks]

stephen wrote:
This article thoroughly freaked me out.

I keep waiting for the big reveal that the article was a joke. it never came. and it's not funny at all.

[Filliam H. Muffman]

I can see someone falling for the AI, like the movie Her.

Someone born 20 years from now and raised by an AI could really be vulnerable to the love bombing.