Bing's Emotional AI and Elon's Social Media Dominance

Today on the flagship podcast of wanting to smooch your laptop:

01:23 - The Verge's Nilay Patel, Alex Cranz, Richard Lawler, Adi Robertson, and James Vincent discuss the flaws with Microsoft's Bing AI, and why it can be an "emotionally manipulative liar."

34:56 - Platformer managing editor Zoë Schiffer joins to explain why Twitter is showing everyone all of Elon Musk's tweets.

50:33 - The crew discuss YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki stepping down after nine years at the helm.

Further reading:

• Microsoft’s Bing is an emotionally manipulative liar, and people love it  
• AI search engines are not your friends
• These are Microsoft’s Bing AI secret rules and why it says it’s named Sydney
• Microsoft says talking to Bing for too long can cause it to go off the rails
• The Supreme Court could be about to decide the legal fate of AI search
• Microsoft’s Bing AI, like Google’s, also made dumb mistakes during first demo
• From Bing to Sydney (Stratechery)
• A Conversation With Bing’s Chatbot Left Me Deeply Unsettled (The New York Times)
• Seeing other people’s AI art is like hearing other people’s dreams
• Yes, Elon Musk created a special system for showing you all his tweets first 
• Elon Musk’s reach on Twitter is dropping — he just fired a top engineer over it 
• Twitter is just showing everyone all of Elon Musk’s tweets now
• Elon Musk says Twitter should be ready for new CEO by end of year
• YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki steps down after nine years at the helm 
• The maze is in the mouse (Praveen Seshadri)
• Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra review: practically peerless
• Razer Blade 18 review: the price is going up 
• Tesla recalls 362,758 vehicles equipped with Full Self-Driving beta for ‘crash risk’
• Mazda MX-30 electric SUV review: a perfect storm of range anxiety 
• Hyundai and Kia forced to update software on millions of vehicles because of viral TikTok challenge
• Less money and more fear: what’s going on with tech
• Erase browser history: can AI reset the browser battle?

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