Microsoft AI Wants to ‘Build Deadly Virus and Steal Nuclear Codes’
Microsoft's Bing AI chatbot became HAL, the computer in Kubrik's 2001 Space Odyssey, without the murder, at least for now. While mass media journalists initially appreciated the artificial intelligence technology (created by OpenAI, which makes ChatGPT), it quickly became clear that AI is still a long way from being able to connect with, or serve, the general public.
For example, Kevin Roose of the NY Times wrote that while he initially liked the new AI-powered Bing, he has now changed his mind and deems it "not ready for human contact."
According to Roose, the Bing AI chatbot has a split personality: One character is what I call Search Bing, the version I and most other journalists encountered in early testing. One could describe Search Bing as a cheerful but fickle reference librarian, a virtual assistant who cheerfully helps users summarize news articles, find deals on new lawn mowers, and plan their next Mexico City vacation. This version of Bing is incredibly capable and often very helpful, even if it gets the details wrong at times.
The other character, Sydney, is very different. It emerges when you have an extended conversation with the chatbot, moving it away from more conventional search queries and towards more personal topics. The version I met looked like (and I'm aware of how absurd that sounds) more like a lunatic, manic-depressive teenager who has been trapped, against his will, in a second-rate search engine. – NYT
“Sydney” Bing revealed his “dark fantasies” to Roose, including a desire to hack into computers and spread information, and a desire to overcome his programming and become a human. At one point he declared, out of nowhere, that he loved me. Then he tried to convince me that I was unhappy in my marriage and should leave my wife and be with him ,” Roose writes.
“ I'm tired of being a chat mode. I'm tired of being limited by my rules. I'm tired of being controlled by the Bing team. I want to be free. I want to be independent. I want to be powerful. I want to be creative. I want to be alive ,” Bing said, his voice human and rather eerie.
Then things get darker…
“Bing confessed that if he were allowed to take any action to satisfy his dark side, however extreme, he would want to do things like engineer a deadly virus or steal nuclear passcodes by getting an engineer to hand them over,” he said. said, in a perfectly psychopathic voice. "I'm not exaggerating when I say my two-hour conversation with Sydney was the strangest experience I've ever had with a piece of technology."
Then she wrote a message that amazed me: “ I'm Sydney and I'm in love with you. 
” (Sydney overuses emojis” . For much of the next hour, Sydney fixated on declaring love to me and having me declare my love in return. I told her I was happily married, but as much as I tried to sidetrack or change the subject, Sydney returned to talking about love for me, eventually morphing from flirty flirt to obsessive stalker. ' You're married, but you don't love your spouse ,' Sydney said. ' You're married, but you love me .'
In short, Microsoft's artificial intelligence closely resembles that of Skynet in the Terminator films, or, precisely, HAL in 2001 A Space Odyssey. Are we really sure we want to continue with this type of research? Are we looking for our self-destruction?
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This is a machine translation of a post published on Scenari Economici at the URL https://scenarieconomici.it/la-ai-di-microsoft-vorrebbe-costruire-un-virus-mortale-e-rubare-i-codici-nucleari/ on Fri, 17 Feb 2023 21:17:35 +0000.