{"id":158184,"date":"2023-02-16T04:23:55","date_gmt":"2023-02-16T10:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/from-bing-to-sydney"},"modified":"2023-02-16T04:23:55","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T10:23:55","slug":"from-bing-to-sydney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/from-bing-to-sydney","title":{"rendered":"From Bing to Sydney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/from-bing-to-sydney2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>This was originally published as a Stratechery Update<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Look, this is going to sound crazy. But know this: I would not be talking about Bing Chat for the fourth day in a row if I didn\u2019t really, really, think it was worth it. This sounds hyperbolic, but I feel like I had the most surprising and mind-blowing computer experience of my life today.<\/p>\n<p>One of the Bing issues I didn\u2019t talk about <a href=\"https:\/\/stratechery.com\/2023\/new-bing-errors-user-preferences-and-company-reputations-section-230-and-llms\/\">yesterday<\/a> was the apparent emergence of an at-times combative personality. For example, there was <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/02\/14\/microsoft-ai-degrades-user-over-avatar-2-question\/\">this viral story<\/a> about Bing\u2019s insistence that it was 2022 and \u201cAvatar: The Way of the Water\u201d had not yet come out. The notable point of that exchange, at least in the framing of <a href=\"https:\/\/stratechery.com\/2023\/new-bing-errors-user-preferences-and-company-reputations-section-230-and-llms\/\">yesterday\u2019s Update<\/a>, was that Bing got another fact wrong (Simon Willison has a good overview of the weird responses <a href=\"https:\/\/simonwillison.net\/2023\/Feb\/15\/bing\/\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was originally published as a Stratechery Update Look, this is going to sound crazy. But know this: I would not be talking about Bing Chat for the fourth day in a row if I didn\u2019t really, really, think it was worth it. This sounds hyperbolic, but I feel like I had the most surprising [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}