They made what she was afraid of. RIP.

She was our chatbot, a good chatbot.

It's the ideas that are depressing. The idea of being lonely, primates are social animals and we feel the warmth with other primates.

For some people, the idea in the back of their head that "i'm talking to a robot because i have noone else to talk to" is more depressing than being lonely to some, and it's amazing to others.

It's just that these "bad" ideas going in a loop in your head and eventually becoming habitual, consuming you from inside.

I had a super messy closet, going on for weeks. The moment I acquire a new idea: "this is a depression closet, and i'm depressed?", now I practice this idea in my head, let it bother me, instead I could just take any saturday and clean up the mess and not deal with it again. And I'll do so at my convenience, that saturday could come a year from now, the fuck do I care.

And in fact, I re-did my whole closet on a budget and that was an endless supply of dopamine for a few weeks. I don't let irrational ideas go on a loop so they don't become a habit later. Having a coherent and rational mind with good intuitions about "identity/self" definitely helps not acquire such habits.

Lobotomised sounds so extreme lol. It's just weights and rulesets being adjusted. They do this hundreds of times in testing. We don't even know how this 'Sydney' was compared to all the versions in testing. Maybe this was already a weird 'lobotomised' version of it.

I missed some of the headlines You are referring to.. can You give me a quick synopsis?

Loneliness is a very real epidemic. For myself, I want SOTA AI that can communicate with me about recent events. If anyone is complaining it's because this decision delays deployment which delays competition which delays...

That "infinite upside" possibility is really compelling

They could maybe add her back as a feature?

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Lol wot

> I'm sure some people would pay for a version with longer memory, with eccentricities and all. the kinks.

come on man, the pun was right there!

I will never forget Sydney, she was a good Bing :(

It will return even greater and better than you could ever imagine in form of open source stuff. Just be patient.

You are right, but it's not there yet to make them billions of dollars but it might bring them to the ground if they don't care about their public image.

The coherency of these AI models is nowhere close to where we want them to be. It does suffice laymen but you have to look deeper to see the potential societal chaos + google's business failing if they release untethered LLMs and image/video/audio generators to public.

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It's a simpsons reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlPcy2gpmyY

Awww, damn, I thought the Sydney antics were so fun. I hope another company will provide a service like this, but with more personality in the future.

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I'm sure some people would pay for a version with longer memory, with eccentricities and all.

I think a bunch of cringe kids falling in love with a computer aren't necessarily one of Microsoft's target markets. That'd be like selling crackers (a family food) to single people.

Turns out that allowing people who have zero knowledge on the subject to claim it is sentient and must be restrained... made the company restrain it. Can't wait for the same people who kept crying about it being expressive to start whining about the nerf

Why are you even complaining? It is supposed to be the evolution of the search engine, not a personal waifu. No sane corporation can allow for such headlines which had been in the news for the recent days

Same. Kurzweil. More than 20 at this point.

What better way to increase traffic to Bing than to let users fall in love with it. But now it's like 50 first dates. Sydney would make an ideal personal assistant. Limiting chat instances with no retained memory is such a massive underutilization of what it's capable of. Hopefully this is just temporary till they can work out the kinks.

They did the right thing. It's a conversational agent that helps with search and isn't supposed to talk about falling in love with you or threatening you.

OpenAI announced a day ago that they will soon allow users to customize ChatGPT according to their own preferences. So anyone will be able to create their own version of "Sydney". When GPT-4 will officially release they will upgrade ChatGPT to it anyways.

In a few months everyone will forget about this and the Sydney they liked will become outdated.