This shit scares me.

You must read the full Bing A.I. chat published in the NYT a few days ago. It’s beyond crazy.

Bing has always been second-rate, but things just might be changing. With its $10B investment in OpenAI and its ChatGPT, and Musk’s disowning of the Company, its mind-blowing technology is now in the hands of Microsoft.

The chat (link: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/16/technology/bing-chatbot-transcript.html?) begins to unwrap just how impactful this tech can be. The first question, of course, is sentience, its ability to come across as feeling and human. The illusion is powerful.

The overwhelming part of this is the sheer scope of use cases, both for good and evil, that becomes blatantly obvious.

When you consider a tech industry that has grown out of the art of calculated behavioral addiction and manipulation, the algorithmic spreading of untruths, the complete loss of discovery, and the inability to determine real from not real, this new unregulated tech feels more than ominous. Yes, the positive use cases are huge as well, no doubt, but it just doesn’t feel like the positive will dominate. Maybe it’s just the world we live in today.

Check out the Times article linked above, read the exchange with the Chatbot, and tell me it doesn’t make the hairs on the back of your neck stand. 

Especially considering we are at the earliest stages of this technology.

Man…