From Samantha to Dolores

Catching up on the coverage of BingGPT’s um, interesting, encounters with users this past week as the service starts to scale is fascinating. It might be <a href="https://www.techmeme.com/230215/p22#a230215p22" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">the most fascinating story in tech</a> in quite some time. Because it covers all the bases, from incredible new technology evolving rapidly to human nature and emotions and philosophy and the intersection of all of these things. Oh yes, and fear. And uncertainty. And doubt. A few things strike me as I triangulate what I’m reading — and trying, since I have access to the new tool from Bing as well — but mainly that this is all both not at all surprising and incredibly surprising. It’s perhaps not surprising as this same basic thing happens over and over again when new “AI” tools are rolled out. Hell, Microsoft itself has one of the most infamous examples of this in the not-too-distant past. Yes, ChatGPT is far more advanced <a href="https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/02/why-bing-is-being-creepy.html" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">than ‘Tay’</a> with far different (and more impressive) technology at work. But there’s a reason the same general things keep happening when such technology appears. And it largely boils down to human nature. <a href="https://medium.com/five-hundred-words/from-samantha-to-dolores-9394312dd4f5">Read More</a>