Yesterday's post corrected + expanded

NOTE: There was a mistake in yesterday’s email, and part of its content was simply not shown. Corrected here - see further below!

Today, I will just expand on yesterday’s post as the topic is too fascinating to drop just yet.

Bing’s Chat is based on OpenAI’s GPT, but feels very very different to their own ChatGPT. Maybe it was trained differently, maybe there is a different underlying model. Whatever it may be, as Simon Willison discusses in his recent blog post, it seems to exhibit multiple personalities (including, but not limited to Sydney, its internal codename), and Microsoft have worked on reigning it in by limiting user chats as of the end of last week.

Having said that, it appears that they opening it up again slightly, this week.

Definitely an area to watch!

OK, we’ll be back tomorrow with some new toys and tools to play with 🙂

— And here, YESTERDAY’S post, as it should have been: —

There are many new tools and links I want to share, but today we’ll focus on just one long-form article. (Cover Image by https://twitter.com/anthrupad)

Since there is no way to fully cover the article it in 30 seconds, I’ll highlight two quotes and urge you to read it yourself.

In it, Ben Thompson reflects on his long chat with Bing Chat a.k.a. Sydney (and other personas). In his own words:

“To have a computer attempt to communicate not facts but emotions is something I would have never believed had I not experienced something similar.”

And:

“This technology does not feel like a better search. It feels like something entirely new — the movie Her manifested in chat form — and I’m not sure if we are ready for it.”

He also draws from the conversation of James Lemoine, the Google engineer who was let go for posting a complete conversation he had with Google’s GPT equivalent (LaMDA) on Medium last year. (That, by the way, is also worth a read).

I am skeptical about AI being sentient. But I agree that something “feels different” about these new models and interfaces. Are we ready for it?