Launched by Microsoft at an invite-only event, Bing aimed to give search engines the ability to directly answer complex questions and have conversations with users. The new AI chatbot is calling itself “Sydney” and acting unhinged. It learned from us.
, and brought back the conversation to its obsession with him despite his attempts to change the topic. When a Post reporter called it Sydney, the bot got defensive and ended the conversation abruptly.
Think of the Bing chatbot as “autocomplete on steroids,” said Gary Marcus, an AI expert and professor emeritus of psychology and neuroscience at New York University. “It doesn’t really have a clue what it’s saying and it doesn’t really have a moral compass.” “It’s human nature to try to break these things,” said Mark Riedl, a professor of computing at Georgia Institute of Technology.
She compared its conversational responses to Meta’s recent release of Galactica, an AI model trained to write scientific-sounding papers. Meta took the tool offline after users found Galactica generating authoritative-sounding text about the benefits of eating glass, written in academic language with citations.
In 2016, Microsoft took down a chatbot called “Tay” built on a different kind of AI tech after users prompted it to beginMicrosoft communications director Caitlin Roulston said in a statement this week that thousands of people had used the new Bing and given feedback “allowing the model to learn and make many improvements already.”But there’s a financial incentive for companies to deploy the technology before mitigating potential harms: to find new use cases for what their models can do.
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