
Microsoft Bing Chat (Sydney), Does ChatGPT have Memories? DAN Prompt, BASE64 & AI Sentience? | E02
About this episode
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 memes
01:29 - Will Bing AI become the next Tay?
04:39 - Memes, Prompt DoS to Hack AI, Training ChatGPT
11:09 - Are we training ChatGPT to be evil? Prompt injection attacks
12:32 - Does Bing AI making stuff up? The challenge for AI products
19:04 - 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 congress
28:35 - 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 behavior
52:48 - DAN Prompt in Microsoft Bing AI (Sydney), BASE64 to avoid censorship
56:47 - 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 Eagleman
SOURCES:
- 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/
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