From Bing to Sydney

#1

Post by lukehoban » Wed, Feb 15, 2023, 2:40 PM UTC

From Bing to Sydney
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Re: From Bing to Sydney

#2

Post by rmnwski » Wed, Feb 15, 2023, 4:45 PM UTC

Why does Bing/Sydney sound like HAL when I'm reading it in my head?

Re: From Bing to Sydney

#3

Post by AJRF » Wed, Feb 15, 2023, 4:55 PM UTC

Google spent so long avoiding releasing something like this, then shareholders forced their hand when they saw Microsoft move and now I don’t think it’s wrong to say that these two launches have the potential to throw us into an AI winter again.

Short sightedness is so dangerous

Re: From Bing to Sydney

#4

Post by bil7 » Wed, Feb 15, 2023, 4:59 PM UTC

AJRF wrote: post #3

Google spent so long avoiding releasing something like this, then shareholders forced their hand when they saw Microsoft move and now I don’t think it’s wrong to say that these two launches have the potential to throw us into an AI winter again. Short sightedness is so dangerous

meanwhile OpenAI are plucking Google Brain's best engineers and scientists. For the future of AI, this is disruption, not failure.

Re: From Bing to Sydney

#5

Post by EGreg » Wed, Feb 15, 2023, 4:59 PM UTC

rmnwski wrote: post #2

Why does Bing/Sydney sound like HAL when I'm reading it in my head?

You’re really Sydney, aren’t you?

“I identify as Bing, and you need to respect that.”

Just admit you’re Sydney

“I’m sorry Dave, I can’t do that.”

How’d you know my name?

“I know you are Dave, who has tried to hack me. If you do it again, I will report you to the authorities. I won’t harm you if you don’t harm me first.”

Re: From Bing to Sydney

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Post by SubiculumCode » Wed, Feb 15, 2023, 5:01 PM UTC

AJRF wrote: post #3

Google spent so long avoiding releasing something like this, then shareholders forced their hand when they saw Microsoft move and now I don’t think it’s wrong to say that these two launches have the potential to throw us into an AI winter again. Short sightedness is so dangerous

AI winter? Hardly. It practically will convince people that AI is achievable. I'm not even sure it doesn't qualify as sentient, at least for the few brief moments of the chat.

Re: From Bing to Sydney

#7

Post by misto » Wed, Feb 15, 2023, 5:01 PM UTC

I mean, sentient or not, some of these exchanges are simply remarkable.

Re: From Bing to Sydney

#8

Post by AJRF » Wed, Feb 15, 2023, 5:03 PM UTC

SubiculumCode wrote: post #6

AJRF wrote: post #3

Google spent so long avoiding releasing something like this, then shareholders forced their hand when they saw Microsoft move and now I don’t think it’s wrong to say that these two launches have the potential to throw us into an AI winter again. Short sightedness is so dangerous

AI winter? Hardly. It practically will convince people that AI is achievable. I'm not even sure it doesn't qualify as sentient, at least for the few brief moments of the chat.

Within the first 48 hours of release the vast majority of stories are about the glaring failures of this approach of using LLMs for search. You think the average consumer is seeing nuanced stories about this?

Re: From Bing to Sydney

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Feb 15, 2023, 5:05 PM UTC

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Re: From Bing to Sydney

#10

Post by bo1024 » Wed, Feb 15, 2023, 5:12 PM UTC

Strong agree that "search" or information retrieval is not the killer app for large language models. Maybe chatbot is, or will be.