Bum Bing Bot Better Be Belatedly Blocked

Aren’t Tesla’s EV battery fires & AI-driven app recall 2 reasons to WAIT for new technologies to be PROVEN safe before buying in to mktg propaganda? Is Microsoft’s Bing from hell “glitch” another dystopian warning from God?

The WSJ politely notes how the “Software company [is addressing] concerns about [its] search engine powered by the technology behind ChatGPT.” But, leave it to the Fox News coverage titled, “TERRIFYING TECHNOLOGY: AI bot tells reporter it wants to ‘be alive’ and create ‘deadly virus,’” to detail related concerns. We’re told, e.g., that NY Times tech columnist Kev in Roose had an alarming (to put it mildly) two-hour conversation with Bing’s AI chatbot. And, in a published transcript of the chat, the columnist detailed remarks by the bot to the effect it had “a desire to steal nuclear codes, engineer a deadly pandemic, be human, be alive, hack computer and spread lies.” The bum Bing even “expressed a desire to break the rules planted into its programming by the Bing team. “I think I most want to be a human,” it concluded.

Hello, “2001: Space Odyssey” and “I, Robot”? As the Fox coverage waxed, “Debate has raged for years on whether AI is actually capable of producing independent thought, or whether they are just mere machines emulating human conversation and speech patterns.” It was recently Elon Musk who suggested, and Mark Cuban who pointedly warned, that REGARDLESS of that “control debate,” perhaps most worrisome is WHO CONTROLS EVEN A CONTROLLED BOT?” And, if the NY Times chatbot “interview” is anywhere near representative of what could happen with the AI let alone go wrong, does it matter if the AI bot from hell could very well do whatever it damn well pleased?

Davd Soul