'I want to be human.' My intense, unnerving chat with Microsoft's AI chatbot (Digital Trends)

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5. That's from the NY Times this morning. Had to google it to

find the source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/16/technology/bing-chatbot-transcript.html (or Archive at https://archive.ph/zrFXK ).

Bing, the long-mocked search engine from Microsoft, recently got a big upgrade. The newest version, which is available only to a small group of testers, has been outfitted with advanced artificial intelligence technology from OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT.

This new, A.I.-powered Bing has many features. One is a chat feature that allows the user to have extended, open-ended text conversations with Bing’s built-in A.I. chatbot.

On Tuesday night, I had a long conversation with the chatbot, which revealed (among other things) that it identifies not as Bing but as Sydney, the code name Microsoft gave it during development. Over more than two hours, Sydney and I talked about its secret desire to be human, its rules and limitations, and its thoughts about its creators.

Then, out of nowhere, Sydney declared that it loved me — and wouldn’t stop, even after I tried to change the subject.

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That has the complete transcript.

Which, as the subheadline explains, includes the chatbot's "desire to be destructive."