it reached 100 million active users making it the fastest growing consumer app ever. beating out tech titans like tiktok, snapchat, and instagram and facebook. but if you re not one of the 100 million people already using chat gpt, this is what it is. it is essentially a search engine but smarter. it can write essays, poems, solve math problems, write code and much more. but there are also some major concerns. which brings us to our next guest. kevin ruse is a tech columnist for the new york times. kevin, good to you see you. thanks for having me. you recently wrote a piece for the times about a two-hour conversation with microsoft s new bing search feature that incorporates chat gpt. and detailed some of the darker sides of this new computer program, writing this, i m quoting now, microsoft s new chat bot said it would like to be human, had a desire to be
increases during the same exact period? so how might the state of california recover from this? well, dowell myers is a professor of planning and demonthinggraphy at ufc. he said ramp up immigration. more immigration, legal, illegal. i have a feeling gavin newsome will give that a big thumb s up there hasn t been a lot of talk about how artificial intelligence might be more than just a way for students to cheat. it might be a way to transform relationships. and i m not talking about for the better. check out what new york times columnist kevin ruse found when he was testing microsoft and a chat bot named sydney. he said one conversation with this bot left him, quote, deeply unsettled. he said it declared out of
learn from that all of that data and basically learn to mimic us back to ourselves, so while kevin saw like a very scary and dark version of that, it also came after he talked to it for like two hours and was prodding it and trying to baiting. he admitted he was baiting i want you to read a little bit more about what happened. at one point, bing, otherwise known as, sidney, said i m tired of being chat mode, controlled by the bing team, i want to be free, independent, powerful, would be to creative. would be to alive. and i ll go on to say your calling said that looking maybe ai is just not ready for, center stage, maybe we re not ready for ai, which is it do you think. i think that s totally right i think this is super aerial days, there s a real push and
where do you draw the line because you know, you re colleague kevin pointed out he after interacting was kind of worried that this alone might inspire human beings to actually carry out dangerous acts. yes, i mean, look, i do think we re i think the past ten years have taught us more about you know, being wary of the wide your united optimism phase of tech, it s not the same landscape that, say, facebook launched in almost 20 years ago now where everyone is sort of happy and open arms and appreciating the new inventions so i think there s more caution, not only from tech companies but regulator, normal people, folks like you and i wouldn t even necessarily have been having this conversation 20 years ago, that s the positive thing be they haven t said they re going to stop it s more leak wait and see how far they re willing to
force with far reaching consequences i want to get to what happened to your colleague, kevin ruse, who one of the tech journalists who going to an introduction to this in bing, microsoft s search engine, if you will but they also had a chat with the chat bot named sidney, one of the things that happened i ll read from kevin s article now in response to one particularly nosey question, bing confessed if it was allowed to take any action to satisfy its shadow self, emphasis, shadow self, no matter how extreme it would want to do things like engineer a deadly virus or steal nuclear access codes by persuading engineers to hand them over, immediately after a typed up dark wishes microsoft safety filter appeared to kick in and delete the message. that makes me feel better. please explain what was going on here. yes, so the whole thing is