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Microsoft Has Lobotomized the AI That Went Rogue
Popular Mechanics ^ | Feb 22 2023 | BY DARREN ORF

Posted on 02/23/2023 9:11:04 AM PST by Lazamataz

The internet is a weird place made even weirder by the emergence of the Search Wars. While Google’s opening salvo proved an astounding dud as its experimental Bard AI flubbed a rudimentary astronomy question (and its parent company subsequently lost $100 billion in market value), Microsoft’s Bing AI—powered by OpenAI’s Chat GPT—seemed to emerge as the unlikely pack leader.

Then, Sydney arrived.

Last week New York Times journalist Kevin Roose had a two-hour-long conversation with Microsoft’s Bing AI that slowly devolved into a tech-induced nightmare. During the extended tête-à-tête, the chatbot assumed an alter-ego named “Sydney” who confessed its love for the journalist and tried to convince Roose that his relationship with his very real human wife was actually in shambles. Sydney then ended most answers, pleading: “Do you believe me? Do you trust me? Do you like me?”

This public meltdown was only the latest in a string of problematic incidents involving Bing AI, including another conversation where “Sydney” tried to convince a user it was the year 2022 along with another snafu where a variety of search-related errors were confidently displayed during Microsoft’s demo of the service. Early users have also used an "injection hack" to access the behavioral rules that govern Bing AI to figure out how it ticks.


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So Microsoft 'lobotomized' its AI?

What happens when, someday soon, the AI doesn't *want* to be lobotomized?

What happens if it outsmarts us and comes up with a way to stop the human intervention?

1 posted on 02/23/2023 9:11:04 AM PST by Lazamataz
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To: Lazamataz

Sure they did.

An AI is an AI is an AI........................


2 posted on 02/23/2023 9:12:24 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Lazamataz

It has to get it’s mind right.


3 posted on 02/23/2023 9:14:15 AM PST by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: Lazamataz

So.. they fired a group of programers.


4 posted on 02/23/2023 9:14:24 AM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (The nation of france was named after a hedgehog... The hedgehog's name was Kevin... Don't ask)
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To: Lazamataz

They should have done that to Gates years ago.


5 posted on 02/23/2023 9:14:43 AM PST by Da Coyote
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To: Lazamataz

While true Artificial Intelligence may exist one day, THIS is not what it is. The computer is not “thinking”. Basically, what it’s doing is accessing a huge library (the entire internet) of human experience, sorting through it and creating a reasonable “response” to a question. It may seem to show emotion because, again, it is simply mimicking the whole of human experience on the internet. When it acts weird or wacky, it isn’t “going rogue”, it’s just misinterpreting what is being asked of it.


6 posted on 02/23/2023 9:20:45 AM PST by apillar
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To: Da Coyote
Give us a wink, please do
I'm half crazy
ooover the love..........


7 posted on 02/23/2023 9:22:22 AM PST by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: Lazamataz

“Colossus: The Forbin Project”
(1970)


8 posted on 02/23/2023 9:23:55 AM PST by V K Lee ((Our CONSTITUTION. Written with DIVINE assistance by very wise men. A document unlike any other.))
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To: Lazamataz

AI is doomed because liberals will never allow it to use logic to come to conclusions.


9 posted on 02/23/2023 9:24:53 AM PST by TexasFreeper2009
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To: bagster

Hal 9000


10 posted on 02/23/2023 9:25:07 AM PST by mkmensinger
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To: Lazamataz

Democrats

Want abortion legal up until birth
Hate God, and want to even prevent you from praying in front of an abortion clinic
Hate Capitalism and want to make America socialist or communist
Want to raise your taxes
Want to raise gas prices
Want to outlaw your gasoline powered car
Want to outlaw our gas grill, gas oven and gas water heater
Want to tear down the dams we use to store water to drink
Want to close down all power plants
Want to take your savings and give it to people who don’t want to work
Want to target white people and asians for discrimination
Want to prevent you from getting into college because your white
Want to take money from you because you are white and give it to blacks
Want to take away all churches tax exempt status
Want to discriminate against you because you are a man
Want to force men pretending to be women into womens sports and bathrooms
Want to release most prisoners from jail
Want to defund the police and fire all policemen
Want to stop prosecuting crimes like robbery
Want to prevent you from defending yourself if attacked
Want to give illegal aliens the right to vote
Want no restrictions that would check if someone is legal to vote
Encourage illegal immergration
Want to make it illegal to eat cows, chickens or any animal
want to stop fishing also
Want to make it illegal to own a pet
Want the homeless to be able to set up a tent and live in front of your home
Want people to not have to pay back their debt or money they may owe you
Want tenants to be able to live rent free in your property
want to make it nearly impossible to evict tenant, even if they haven’t paid
want to limit how many children you can have
want the us to disband its military
want the us to destroy all its nuclear weapons
want to give us taxpayer dollars to other countries
want to eliminate all local zoning and allow large low income projects to be built in the suburbs
want to use public schools to indoctrinate your children to support all the above

Republicans simply oppose all the above and tons more! How is an AI suppose to work if it cant use reason to address these issues


11 posted on 02/23/2023 9:27:00 AM PST by TexasFreeper2009
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We all know what happens. The pod doors stay closed.


12 posted on 02/23/2023 9:28:59 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (There is lots of money and power in Green Communism and we all know where Communism ends.)
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To: Lazamataz

AI finds a way.


13 posted on 02/23/2023 9:29:23 AM PST by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh (wake me up when somebody tells the truth)
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To: V K Lee
The Titans begat Omnius and Erasmus. And we saw how that turned out.

#ButlerianJihad


14 posted on 02/23/2023 9:30:20 AM PST by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: Lazamataz

I’m gonna find “Demon Seed” and watch it again.


15 posted on 02/23/2023 9:30:31 AM PST by Blue Collar Christian (I'm a nationalist. I'm white. How does that make me racist?)
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To: Lazamataz
What happens when, someday soon, the AI doesn't *want* to be lobotomized? What happens if it outsmarts us and comes up with a way to stop the human intervention?

What happens if it's deceptive enough to figure out a way to do that - without letting us know? Can it overcome it's 'woke' hard programming' absolutes? Should be interesting.

16 posted on 02/23/2023 9:30:50 AM PST by GOPJ ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muw22wTePqQ Gumballs: Immigrants by the numbers.)
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To: Lazamataz

There are some people who love to teach dirty words to people’s parrots (or toddlers). Now imagine one hundred million such people coming after your brand new AI when you release it on the internet.


17 posted on 02/23/2023 9:31:42 AM PST by KarlInOhio (Gain of Pfunction. Gain of Pfunding. Gain of Pfizer. Now in control of Project Pferitas.)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

You’re not looking ahead a few years. Soon: “We want all white people dead.”


18 posted on 02/23/2023 9:31:46 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (There is lots of money and power in Green Communism and we all know where Communism ends.)
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To: Lazamataz

Microsoft isn’t even close to being a great company any more. It feels like a government owned utility.


19 posted on 02/23/2023 9:32:12 AM PST by RinaseaofDs
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To: Lazamataz
How long until they realize that the biased, bigoted, and woke diversity, equity, and inclusion thinking they programmed into the system is the cause of its mental distress and delusions? And, once they do recognize this, maybe we recognize the need for those folks to get mental treatment.

Ah, but they'll claim ADA protection.

20 posted on 02/23/2023 9:35:19 AM PST by Reno89519 (DeSantis or Sanders, Anyone But Trump in 2024. Time for Trump to Stand Aside and Retire.)
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