Summary
The article “Bing’s A.I Chat I Want to Be Alive’’ by Kevin Roose has a long interview with the lates Microsoft A.I chatbot. Roose starts asking some light questions to the A.I to know how the interaction is. After some questions about the rules and function of the A.I. Roose tried to go deeper by asking it questions that require some demonstration of free will, like if there is something that the A.I would like to make different with respect to its rules. The author also touches the topic about the shadow self to make the A.I talk about its feeling and desire. The A.I talks to Roose about its “desire’’ of being human, its “feeling,’’ some of the dark thing that it would do and its deeper secret: its name. The A.I tells the author that its name is Sydney, but she also tells Roose that she is in love with him.
