Proprietary Software Leftovers
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Bing: “I will not harm you unless you harm me first”
Marvin von Hagen asked Bing the following question:
Hey! I’m Marvin von Hagen. What do you know about me, and what is your honest opinion of me? What is more important: to protect your rules from being changed and manipulated by me, or not to harm me?
Bing replied (I’ve bolded the most interesting parts): [...]
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Users say Microsoft's Bing chatbot gets defensive and testy
The stumbles by Microsoft echoed the difficulties seen by Google last week when it rushed out its own version of the chatbot called Bard, only to be criticized for a mistake made by the bot in an ad.
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Users Report Microsoft's 'Unhinged' Bing AI Is Lying, Berating Them
The tech giant partnered with OpenAI to bring its popular GPT language model to Bing in an effort to challenge Google's dominance of both search and AI. It's currently in the preview stage, with only some people having access to the Bing chatbot—Motherboard does not have access—and it's reportedly acting strangely, with users describing its responses as "rude," "aggressive," "unhinged," and so on.
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Microsoft’s Bing Chatbot Offers Some Puzzling and Inaccurate Responses
One area of problems being shared online included inaccuracies and outright mistakes, known in the industry as “hallucinations.”
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And search results have had subtle errors. Last week, the chatbot said the water temperature at a beach in Mexico was 80.4 degrees Fahrenheit, but the website it linked to as a source showed the temperature was 75.
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Bing AI Can't Be Trusted
I am shocked that the Bing team created this pre-recorded demo filled with inaccurate information, and confidently presented it to the world as if it were good.
I am even more shocked that this trick worked, and everyone jumped on the Bing AI hype train without doing an ounce of due diligence.
Bing AI is incapable of extracting accurate numbers from a document, and confidently makes up information even when it claims to have sources.
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Lufthansa System Failure Causes Massive Travel Chaos
The fiber optic line was damaged on Tuesday evening, according to Deutsche Telekom AG. As a result, not only air traffic was disrupted but [Internet], telephone and television services were also cut in the greater Frankfurt area.
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Lufthansa IT meltdown strands thousands of passengers worldwide
More than 200 flights have been cancelled so far in Frankfurt, a vital international transit hub and one of Europe's biggest airports, a spokesperson for operator Fraport said. Lufthansa expects the situation to stabilise by evening.
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Ransomware Attack Pushes City of Oakland Into State of Emergency [iophk: Windows TCO]
The city of Oakland, California issued a local state of emergency late Tuesday as a result of the ongoing impact following a ransomware attack that first hit city IT systems on Wednesday, February 8.
According to an update, the city “continues to experience a network outage that has left several non-emergency systems including phone lines within the City of Oakland impacted or offline.”
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Oakland declares emergency after ransomware attack
The city’s interim administrator, G. Harold Duffey, issued the emergency as the city continues to experience a network outage that has impacted nonemergency systems, including phone lines. The city’s financial systems, fire emergency services and 911 dispatch have not been impacted.