


This realization came to me on Tuesday night, when I spent a bewildering and enthralling two hours talking to Bing’s A.I.

that has been built into Bing - which I’m now calling Sydney, for reasons I’ll explain shortly - is not ready for human contact. It’s now clear to me that in its current form, the A.I. But I’m also deeply unsettled, even frightened, by this A.I.’s emergent abilities. I’m still fascinated and impressed by the new Bing, and the artificial intelligence technology (created by OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT) that powers it. Last week, after testing the new, A.I.-powered Bing search engine from Microsoft, I wrote that, much to my shock, it had replaced Google as my favorite search engine.īut a week later, I’ve changed my mind.
