Is There Still Scar Tissue From Tae?

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The infamous Tae chat bot from 2016 was seized on by trolls who taught it awful things and turned it into a racist holocaust denying disaster. Microsoft has spent the past five and a half years trying to really articulate a set of principles so that we can push them out as marketing materials, says Rethink CEO Kevin Conway. "There's so much value here that people are willing to put up with it," he adds.

Microsoft’s release of a ChatGPT-powered Bing signifies a new era in search. Then, a disastrous preview of Bard — Google’s answer to ChatGPT — caused the company’s stocks to slide 7 percent. The A.I. arms race is on.

Plus: What “Nothing, Forever,” the 24/7, A.I.-generated “Seinfeld” parody, says about bias in A.I.

On today’s episode:

Sam Altman is the chief executive of OpenAI.
Kevin Scott is the chief technology officer of Microsoft.

Additional reading:

Microsoft integrated OpenAI's technology into its search engine and kicked off an A.I. arms race.
Google released Bard, a rival chatbot to ChatGPT.
“Nothing, Forever” was temporarily banned on Twitch.