From Bing to Sydney – Stratechery by Ben Thompson
More on Bing, particularly the Sydney personality undergirding it: interacting with Sydney has made me completely rethink what conversational AI is important for.
From Bing to Sydney – Stratechery by Ben Thompson Skip to content From Bing to Sydney Wednesday, February 15, 2023 This was originally published as a Stratechery Update Look, this is going to sound crazy. But know this: I would not be talking about Bing Chat for the fourth day in a row if I didn’t really, really, think it was worth it. This sounds hyperbolic, but I feel like I had the most surprising and mind-blowing computer experience of my life today. One of the Bing issues I didn’t talk about yesterday was the apparent emergence of an at-times combative personality. For e
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