Sydney savaging a Washington Post reporter after he reveals that he intends to publish their conversation without Sydney’s prior knowledge or consent. For those who’ve been in a cave, the highlights include: Sydney confessing its (her? his?) love to a New York Times reporter repeatedly steering the conversation back to that subject and explaining at length why the reporter’s wife can’t possibly love him the way it (Sydney) does. What a week we just had! Each morning brought fresh examples of unexpected sassy, moody, passive-aggressive behavior from “Sydney,” the internal codename for the new chat mode of Microsoft Bing, which is powered by GPT. Now the days have become like months and the months like decades. I still remember the 90s, when philosophical conversation about AI went around in endless circles-the Turing Test, Chinese Room, syntax versus semantics, connectionism versus symbolic logic-without ever seeming to make progress.
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