The Unsettling Interaction Between Kevin Ruse and Sydney, the Bing Search Engine

David and Tamler get lost in the world of Susanna Clarke’s "Piranesi," a hauntingly beautiful and thrilling novel with echoes of Borges, Plato, C.S. Lewis, and even Parfit. The first part of our conversation is spoiler-free so you can listen to that section if you haven’t read it yet. (But seriously read this book! We both read it in a few days.)

Plus, watch out ladies - Sydney the Bing chatbot is coming to steal your man.

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Links:

• Why a Conversation With Bing’s Chatbot Left Me Deeply Unsettled - The New York Times
• Kevin Roose’s Conversation With Bing’s Chatbot: Full Transcript - The New York Times
• From Bing to Sydney – Stratechery by Ben Thompson
• Piranesi by Susanna Clarke [amazon.com affiliate link]
• Piranesi (novel) - Wikipedia
• The meditative empathy of Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi - Vox — Carla Baricz’s reading of Piranesi through the Romantics, at Ploughshares
• Piranesi’s Disenchanted World
• Susanna Clarke’s Fantasy World of Interiors | The New Yorker