Creepy Chatbot and Predictive Text

This is creepy. That is the single sentence in an email to which my Beautiful Mystery Companion attached a New York Times article, titled A Conversation With Bing’s Chatbot Left Me Deeply Unsettled. She was right. It was deeply creepy and disturbing. The writer is Kevin Roose, a technology columnist who the previous week had written that the new Bing, a search engine from Microsoft powered by artificial intelligence, had replaced Google as his preferred search engine. I had read that piece and resolved to try Bing when it became widely available. It is still in the testing phase and only a small...

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