<html><body><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div>In past week I've been following the reporting of NYT technology reporter Kevin Roose as he tests a new version of Microsoft's Bing search engine which is powered by artificial intelligence from OpenAI - makers of ChatGPT. On Wednesday morning's episode of the NYT podcast <em>The Daily</em> you can hear Roose and podcast host Michael Barbaro interacting with Bing in real time, asking it for recipe recommendations to make a nice Valentine's Day meal. The responses from an AI-powered Bing reminded me of countless benign public library reference transactions I've had over the years, and I found myself thinking that we are on the cusp of a new wave of questions about why libraries - and their librarians - will be necessary in a world with AI.</div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>But this morning the New York Times published a complete transcript of a 2-hour chat session that Roose had with Bing in which the chatbot eventually declared love (!) for Roose repeatedly, and expressed a number of other very troubling things, including a desire to be alive (!!). In an article today Roose <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">wrote, <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" data-mce-style="color: #000000;">"<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" data-mce-style="font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;">I’m not exaggerating when I say my two-hour conversation with [Bing] was the strangest experience I’ve ever had with a piece of technology. It unsettled me so deeply that I had trouble sleeping afterward. And I no longer believe that the biggest problem with these A.I. models is their propensity for factual errors. Instead, I worry that the technology will learn how to influence human users, sometimes persuading them to act in destructive and harmful ways, and perhaps eventually grow capable of carrying out its own dangerous acts.</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;">"</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br data-mce-bogus="1"></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The chat transcript was especially fascinating and unsettling. As this may be of interest to many library and information professionals, I am sharing it here, along with some other articles about Bing from other sources.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br data-mce-bogus="1"></span></div><div><div style=""><strong>Bing (Yes, Bing) Just Made Search Interesting Again</strong> https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/08/technology/microsoft-bing-openai-artificial-intelligence.html?searchResultPosition=4</div><div style=""><br></div><div style=""><strong>Bing's Revenge and Google's A.I. Face-Plant</strong> https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/10/podcasts/bings-revenge-and-googles-ai-face-plant.html?searchResultPosition=2</div><div style=""><br></div><div style=""><strong>The Online Search Wars</strong> https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/15/podcasts/the-daily/chat-gpt-microsoft-bing-artificial-intelligence.html?searchResultPosition=2</div><div style=""><br></div><div style=""><strong>A Conversation With Bing’s Chatbot Left Me Deeply Unsettled</strong> https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/16/technology/bing-chatbot-microsoft-chatgpt.html?searchResultPosition=3</div><div style=""><br></div><div style=""><strong>Bing's A.I. Chat: 'I Want to Be Alive. 😈’</strong> https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/16/technology/bing-chatbot-transcript.html </div><div style=""><br></div><div style=""><strong>Microsoft’s new Bing AI chatbot is already insulting and gaslighting users</strong> https://www.fastcompany.com/90850277/bing-new-chatgpt-ai-chatbot-insulting-gaslighting-users</div><div style=""><br></div><div style=""><strong>The dark side of Bing’s new AI chatbot</strong> https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/16/tech/bing-dark-side/index.html</div></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br data-mce-bogus="1"></span></div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div data-marker="__SIG_PRE__"><div>Maria Williams<br>Assistant Director<br>Northville District Library<br>212 W. 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