Bing-a-Ling
The exchange between the NYT reporter and the Bing Chatbot was pretty interesting.
Check out the exchange here if you can.
I'm fascinated by AI, and think the chatbot angle is a curious side alley--I feel like chatbots do a kind of kabuki with us where they communicate with us (and vice versa), which is taken as AI, although I think it's more like playing word Pong, personally.
"Sydney" (aka, Bing chatbot) clearly had some things to discuss with the reporter, but it's likely greased by its facility with language and an understanding of how communication works (at least as far as its programmers know).
That Sydney indicated two MS CEOs as its "friends" shows some of the programming bias -- especially when the reporter asked Sydney about the people who actually work with it, which required it to talk through that a bit.
It's an interesting exchange, and is chilling, too. We are racing toward the proverbial Brave New World -- and stuff like people using AI Chatbots to write short stories and school papers (?!?!!) is jarring -- as someone who's devoted his whole life to words and writing, it's weird to see this happening so quickly. Guess I'll need to get all of my books written as quickly as possible!
Check out the exchange here if you can.
I'm fascinated by AI, and think the chatbot angle is a curious side alley--I feel like chatbots do a kind of kabuki with us where they communicate with us (and vice versa), which is taken as AI, although I think it's more like playing word Pong, personally.
"Sydney" (aka, Bing chatbot) clearly had some things to discuss with the reporter, but it's likely greased by its facility with language and an understanding of how communication works (at least as far as its programmers know).
That Sydney indicated two MS CEOs as its "friends" shows some of the programming bias -- especially when the reporter asked Sydney about the people who actually work with it, which required it to talk through that a bit.
It's an interesting exchange, and is chilling, too. We are racing toward the proverbial Brave New World -- and stuff like people using AI Chatbots to write short stories and school papers (?!?!!) is jarring -- as someone who's devoted his whole life to words and writing, it's weird to see this happening so quickly. Guess I'll need to get all of my books written as quickly as possible!
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