The Online Search Wars Got Scary. Fast.

Published: Feb. 17, 2023, 10:45 a.m.

b'Microsoft recently released a new version of its search engine Bing that is powered by artificial intelligence software from OpenAI, the maker of the popular chatbot ChatGPT.\\n\\nOn Valentine\\u2019s Day, after a meal with his wife, Kevin Roose, a New York Times technology columnist, had a two-hour conversation with the chatbot.\\n\\nThe chatbot, which revealed that it identified as Sydney, told Kevin that it wanted to be human, that it loved him and that he should leave his wife.\\n\\n\\u201cThere is something going on here that I don\\u2019t think Microsoft intended to build into a search engine,\\u201d Kevin said on today\\u2019s episode. \\u201cSomething is not right.\\u201d\\n\\nGuest: Kevin Roose, a technology columnist for The New York Times and host of the Times podcast \\u201cHard Fork.\\u201d'