Casey newton5/1/2023 ![]() ![]() So I’ve seen these things, but I’ve been somewhat skeptical. But when I see these screenshots, I’m always just like, well, how do I know that this is real? How do I know that this has really happened, that you’re showing me everything you used as part of the prompt. Yeah, a lot of screenshots of these have been going viral on Twitter. of people with access to this new Bing, who are being drawn into these kind of extended, very strange, somewhat confrontational exchanges with Bing. So I started chatting with Bing, because there have been all these screenshots going around - casey newton I don’t think I’m exaggerating when I say that. It was one of the most bizarre experiences of my life. My god, that’s longer than you talk to me for. So I had a two-hour-long conversation with Bing. Separate from the fact that you will no longer be able to use this to graduate from college. But there’s another worry that I now have, separate from the whole factual-accuracy thing. We did talk about, last week - I feel like this is not a total retraction, because we did talk about how this model had shortcomings, and it made errors, and it was prone to hallucination and all these other things that we have talked about AI models being prone to. So this new and improved Bing is not perfect by any stretch. There was a demo that Microsoft did where it listed the pros and cons of some vacuums, and one of the vacuums, it just totally made up some features on. So people have been going over Microsoft’s demo from last week, and they did have factual errors, just things that this AI-powered Bing had hallucinated or gotten wrong, numbers that it thought were being pulled from a document that turned out to have been wrong. I mean, I would think we could actually say it had way more mistakes than Google’s did. So it has subsequently emerged that the demo that we saw of the new and improved Bing also had a number of mistakes in it. It made a factual error in its first demo screenshots. Well, we also talked about how Google’s attempts to show off an AI chatbot had gone badly. ![]() We’ve had some more time with our hands on this new and improved Bing. It can help you make shopping lists and look for vacation plans and do all manner of searches.īut I think we should admit that it’s been a week. So as we talked about, this new Bing - we demoed it for a few hours up in Redmond. So Casey, last week, we talked about the new AI-powered Bing. You know I’d also like to declare my eternal love for you, Kevin. Why Elon Musk’s tweets are suddenly inescapable, and why online ads have gotten so bad. This week, Bing declares its eternal love for me. I’m Casey Newton from “Platformer.” kevin roose I’m a tech columnist at “The New York Times.” casey newton I need you to decide, universe, whether we’re dealing with sentient killer AI or UFOs, and I need there to only be one thing for me to lose sleep over. You know what? The aliens will be in the air and in the computer at the same time! It’s too much. Yeah, it feels like between this and the UFOs, like, it feels like we’re in the one too many seasons of a TV show where the writers are just like, you know what, screw it. ![]() Open up any social app of your choice, and you will see screenshot after screenshot of people having very weird conversations. Well, look, my week is very unsettled, because the AI stuff is getting a little kooky, Kevin. kevin rooseĬasey, how’s your week going? casey newton Please review the episode audio before quoting from this transcript and email with any questions. While it has been reviewed by human transcribers, it may contain errors. This transcript was created using speech recognition software. Transcript The Bing Who Loved Me, and Elon Rewrites the Algorithm Then, online ads have gotten bad - and that might be OK. ![]()
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