AI-enabled Bing is open to early access users, and Simon Willison is tracking the early stumbles:

• The demo was full of errors
• It started gaslighting people
• It suffered an existential crisis
• The prompt leaked
• And then it started threatening people

The past few months saw a meteoric adoption of OpenAI. Yet, I’m already sensing an emerging trough of discontentment with AI. These outcomes will fuel this feeling and worry policy-makers into assuming a risk-averse foetal position!

Why is Bing responding like this? Simon contrasts how OpenAI implemented ChatGPT and how Microsoft adopted the same technology with very different outcomes (so far).

This is well worth a read if you promote AI in your workplace or influence policy.