

This Day in AI Podcast
Michael Sharkey, Chris Sharkey
Join Michael and Chris Sharkey, two proudly average tech enthusiasts, as they stumble through the world of artificial intelligence with all the grace of a robot learning to dance. This (sometimes weekly*) podcast delivers an hour-long conversation about their thoroughly middle-of-the-road adventures with AI.
No PhDs. No Silicon Valley insights. Just two guys with enough technical knowledge to be dangerous, sharing their unexceptional yet entertaining experiences with AI tools and technology.
Subscribe now to hear:
• Mediocre hot takes on AI developments
• Stories of AI experiments gone adequately okay
• The most average advice you'll ever need
• Two Sharkeys trying their best to sound smart about algorithms
• Childish AI prank calls that somehow fool everybody
• Attempts at using AI for phishing attacks on their mother
• "Chart-topping" AI songs according to the brothers
Join our perfectly mediocre community where being average at AI is celebrated, questions are encouraged, and learning through mistakes is our specialty. Because let's face it - most of us are figuring this out as we go along.
New episodes drop whenever we remember to record them. 🎙️
Proudly supported by Simtheory.ai
No PhDs. No Silicon Valley insights. Just two guys with enough technical knowledge to be dangerous, sharing their unexceptional yet entertaining experiences with AI tools and technology.
Subscribe now to hear:
• Mediocre hot takes on AI developments
• Stories of AI experiments gone adequately okay
• The most average advice you'll ever need
• Two Sharkeys trying their best to sound smart about algorithms
• Childish AI prank calls that somehow fool everybody
• Attempts at using AI for phishing attacks on their mother
• "Chart-topping" AI songs according to the brothers
Join our perfectly mediocre community where being average at AI is celebrated, questions are encouraged, and learning through mistakes is our specialty. Because let's face it - most of us are figuring this out as we go along.
New episodes drop whenever we remember to record them. 🎙️
Proudly supported by Simtheory.ai
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Feb 17, 2023 • 60min
Microsoft Bing Chat (Sydney), Does ChatGPT have Memories? DAN Prompt, BASE64 & AI Sentience? | E02
In episode #02 of the This Day in AI Podcast we cover the choas of Bing AI's limited release, including the prompt injection to reveal project "Sydney", DAN Prompt Injection into Microsoft's Bing AI chatbot, Recount Microsoft's TAY ordeal, Discuss How Our Prompts Are Training AI, and Give a Simple Overview of How GPT3 and ChatGPT works.00:00 - Intro, Microsoft Bing AI chaos and memes01:29 - Will Bing AI become the next Tay?04:39 - Memes, Prompt DoS to Hack AI, Training ChatGPT11:09 - Are we training ChatGPT to be evil? Prompt injection attacks12:32 - Does Bing AI making stuff up? The challenge for AI products19:04 - The Google Bard and Microsoft Bing AI arms race and is AI ready for prime time?23:41 - How can we trust AI output? Competitive models? Left, right brain for AI and an AI congress28:35 - Did Bing AI (Sydney) give AI memories by connecting it to the internet? Is AI Sentient?36:02 - What could AI do if unleashed on the internet? Is AI thinking?41:28 - How does GPT3 and ChatGPT work?49:15 - OpenAI's blog responding to AI censorship, shaping ChatGPT's behavior52:48 - DAN Prompt in Microsoft Bing AI (Sydney), BASE64 to avoid censorship56:47 - AI disruption in SaaS: Grammarly ChatGPT & the Jasper UI layer BOOKS:- “What Do You Care What Other People Think?” by Richard Feynman- "Incognito: The secret lives of the brain" by David EaglemanSOURCES:- https://www.theverge.com/2016/3/24/11297050/tay-microsoft-chatbot-racist- https://twitter.com/kevinroose/status/1626216340955758594- https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/16/technology/bing-chatbot-microsoft-chatgpt.html- https://twitter.com/tasty_gigabyte7/status/1620571251344551938- https://www.reddit.com/r/bing/comments/113ayt5/dan_can_avoid_the_filter- https://simonwillison.net/2023/Feb/15/bing/- https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1626357251094249472- https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/112z2j4/i_built_a_chrome_extension_to_turn_chatgpt_into/- https://openai.com/blog/how-should-ai-systems-behave/- https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/02/what-is-chatgpt-doing-and-why-does-it-work/- https://simonwillison.net/2022/Dec/4/give-me-ideas-for-crimes-to-do/If you enjoy this podcast please consider telling your friends, subscribing, rating and commenting :).

Feb 10, 2023 • 59min
OpenAI Censorship, DAN, Prompt injections | E01
In our first episode we cover:AI censorship from poo jokesAI regulationGoogle Bard and the future of searchDAN promptHacking AI with prompt injectionIs OpenAI Altavista?Why NFTs might have found a problem to solve with AI