Sunday Special: An Episode of ‘Hard Fork’

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The New York Times

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4.4 • 102.8K Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2023

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Times tech columnist Kevin Roose stopped by The Daily twice this week to chronicle the debut of Bing’s new chatbot — and the creepy things that transpired. Today, we’re bringing you the latest episode of Kevin’s podcast, Hard Fork. Kevin, along with his co-host Casey Newton, expand the discussion about why Microsoft’s A.I. search tool appears more powerful — and more unsettling — than they initially believed. Plus: a conversation about Elon Musk’s quest to be the most popular user on Twitter, and why online ads have gotten so much worse (like, much worse). Hard Fork is a podcast about the future of technology that’s already here. You can search for Hard Fork wherever you get your podcasts. Visit nytimes.com/hardfork for more.

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Michael.
0:02.2	If you listen to The Daily Bus Week, you heard my colleague Kevin Rus explore the saga
0:07.0	of Microsoft's new search engine, which is powered by artificial intelligence.
0:11.4	Well, Kevin's now back with his own podcast, Hard Fork, to explore the very strange experience
0:18.5	he had with that search engine.
0:21.3	Take a listen.
0:22.3	Hey, guys, are we going?
0:25.4	Well, look, my week is very unsettled because the AI stuff is getting a little cookie, Kevin.
0:31.5	Open up any social app of your choice and you will see screenshot after screenshot of
0:35.7	people having very weird conversations.
0:37.6	Yeah, it feels like between this and the UFOs, like, it feels like we're in like the one
0:44.5	too many seasons of a TV show where the writers are just like, you know what, screw it.
0:48.4	That's right.
0:49.4	You know what?
0:50.4	The aliens will be in the air and in the computer at the same time.
0:53.2	It's too much.
0:54.2	I need you to decide universe whether we're dealing with sentient killer AI or UFOs and
1:02.0	I need there to only be one thing for me to lose sleep over.
1:04.3	It's the least you can do, universe.
1:10.9	I'm Kevin Rus.
1:11.9	I'm a tech college at The New York Times, and I'm Casey Newton from Platformer.
1:14.8	This week being declares it's eternal love for me.
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