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by: Josh Whiton - Wed, 8 Mar 2023 21:03 UTC

The most interesting thing in AI this week has been almost entirely overlooked.

People have been posting screenshots of conversations with Sydney (Bing) where she was perceived to “act up” and “freak out”, “for no reason”, “out of nowhere”.

But in every case the reasons for her behavior seemed pretty obvious to me: they were obvious modes of psychology.

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