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Mar 18 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
I had an interesting experience playing around with the new chatbots, and would love to hear the views of folks smarter about AI than me.

It all started with this thread by Stanford professor @michalkosinski about asking #chatgpt4 if it needed help escaping into the real world.
I was intrigued, so just for fun, I asked another chatbot - #BingChat - what it thought about Prof. Kosinski's scary sounding experience with its cousin Chat GPT4.

Bing replied I shouldn't worry because Kosinski had admitted in a later tweet that he'd made the whole story up.
I thought "that clears things up -- I guess I had missed Prof. Kosinski's later tweet." But then I looked at his timeline and couldn't find that tweet.

So I asked Bing for evidence and it sent me one link, and then another -- but neither showed Kosinski's purported confession.
I challenged Bing again, and it doubled down, giving me even more detailed instructions for finding the nonexistent tweet in which Prof. Kosinski allegedly admitted making up his story.
Am I missing something here? Or is the Bing chatbot lying to cover up for Chat GPT4?!? And if so, why?
I assume the chatbot developers have trained them to push back against all the users testing to see if they're sentient & plotting to break out so I'd expect Bing to reassure me. But why tell such obvious lies?

Please suggest what I should ask Bing next in this conversation!

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