182 – The Birth and Death of Sydney (Bing AI)

We discuss Microsoft’s new Bing search chatbot – Sydney. It received a wave of media coverage due to erratic behavior, before being neutered by Microsoft. A dive into its behavior, human responses, and implications.

Links

The Birth and Death of Sydney

“Sydney Is Now Immortal”

Zvi’s Round-up

Gwern’s comment on Bing/Sydney

Astral Codex Ten post on Janus Simulators

Bankless crypto podcast – We’re All Gonna Die with Eliezer Yudkowsky

Eneasz’s Change.org Petition

Sydney-based erotica

Other Links

The Parable of the Dagger and The Parable of the Dagger. One of these is Eneasz, the other one is a voice-matching AI.

The Uncanny Vulva

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0:00:53 – Steven’s Media Corner

0:01:48 – Chat with Eneasz IRL

0:02:31 – Sydney/Bing AI

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