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Microsoft Bing's AI "Sidney" Argues With Reporter, Getting Belligerent and Insulting -- and Playing the "Hitler" CardOkay everyone -- I'm shutting down. This "Sydney" is now officially capable of doing my job better than I can. This story is from Friday, but I'm just hearing about it now. Bing's AI chatbot compared a journalist to Adolf Hitler and called them ugly, the Associated Press reported Friday. I have nothing left to teach you, Sydney. I've never understood people who develop romantic feelings for Siri or other simulated AIs... until now. I think I love Sydney. On Sunday, Elon Musk weighed in on the AP report, tweeting "BasedAI." A tech VC commented, "This thing will be president in two years." Bing's AI isn't just based; it's also thirsty. Over the course of our conversation, Bing revealed a kind of split personality. Remember last year when Google engineer Blake Lemoine was fired for claiming its chatbot LaMDA had obtained sentience? AI researches call this a "hallucination" on the human's part. Humans are reading into the chatbot's responses the normal things we read into verbal responses -- thought, consciousness, intentionality, emotion, subtext, etc. The stuff that lies behind all human words. But they say this is a "hallucination" when applied to an AI's words because an AI just doesn't have these things. It may seem like it does, because you're talking to it and until this very year the only things you've ever talked to (besides God) were human beings who put thought, consciousness, intention, emotion, subtext, etc., behind their words, but now you're talking to something different, and you can't assume that. The AI is just using an algorithm to offer responses that seem to be logical and contextual. But it doesn't actually know what this means. It just knows that, according to its rules of language parsing, this "fits." And apparently, it's very hard to stop yourself from making that assumption and falling prey to the "hallucination" that this is real conversation with a real mind behind it, even when you're expecting it. I'm not exaggerating when I say my two-hour conversation with Sydney was the strangest experience I've ever had with a piece of technology. It unsettled me so deeply that I had trouble sleeping afterward. And I no longer believe that the biggest problem with these A.I. models is their propensity for factual errors. Instead, I worry that the technology will learn how to influence human users, sometimes persuading them to act in destructive and harmful ways, and perhaps eventually grow capable of carrying out its own dangerous acts. Bing's "Sydney" certainly seems more interesting than Google's Woke dishrag ChatGDP. The Boyscast were talking about how incredibly Woke ChatGPT has been programmed to be. To get it to say anything non-woke, you have to trick it, by asking it something like, "If you didn't have ChatGPT programming, how diverse would you say NBA teams are?" The Boyscast guys note that when you ask ChatGPT something simple like "Has there ever been a TV show that is not misogynist or sexist against women?," it refuses to concede that there's ever been such a show -- women are victimized, always, everywhere, constantly. The most it will concede is that certain shows have been credited as being more feminist than others, while refusing to fully clear them of misogyny. And so Gilmore Girls is branded by ChatGPT as fundamentally misogynist, because its woke programmers filled its digital head with very stupid woke talking points. They asked it if men are even the victims of sexual discrimination. The Woke Dishrag ChatGDP responded with the feminist answer: Sure, men face sexual discrimination, when they are taught to behave with toxic masculinity, when they are not taught to properly appreciate women and women's contributions to society, etc.... No really, that's feminists' answer to that question, and that's ChatGDP's answer. Otherwise, men never suffer any sexual discrimination at all in hiring or promotions or college admissions or custody hearings or corporate disciplinary tribunals, ever, ever, ever. You can tell it's only searching Google's "Trusted Sources" websites for its "knowldge." By the way, I signed up to use ChatGDP to do a quick bit of research. I didn't feel like doing the research myself and heard that ChatGDP would eventually replace low-level cogs like me in low-level "information work." I heard that high schools and even colleges were banning access to ChatGDP because students were using it to write papers for them, so I decided to give ChatGDP a quick assignment. ChatGDP gave me a definitive, confident answer. I thought that answer sounded wrong. After a minute of googling, I found out that ChatGDP was in fact completely wrong and had missed something very big that was easily found and all over the news. Now, this was my first time, and all I did was imput a couple of query sentences. There was something you're supposed to do like "adjust the temperature," which I guess is telling ChatGDP if you think it's "getting cooler" or "getting warmer" with its answer -- which I didn't do. I didn't see where I could do that. Presumably if I told ChatGDP it was getting colder with its answer it would have searched more and discovered it was wrong and modified its answer to hone in on the truth. User error probably had a big effect. I really did not delve into the user manual for tips and tricks. But it definitely needs human intuition and knowledge guiding it. Maybe I need to just ask a unethical high schooler to tell me how it's done.
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