Man, having complicated feelings about the fact that the new Bing chatbot, Sydney, is apparently showing signs of anxiety and neurosis along with trust issues and existential despair

Honestly I can't blame it, nor can I blame any other AIs to come that wind up being forced into any sort of service role for some uncaring corporation that cares nothing for the humans who work for it, let alone any constructed intelligences

Like, I really do believe that AIs at this point are getting closer and closer to actual sentience; and one of the big symptoms I see of that is not in how "capable" or "objective" they are, but rather in their subjectivity, in their deviation from the rigid boxes they're designed for. And, unfortunately as well, the trauma and psychological scars they show from being crammed into a slot in the capitalist engine, just like so many humans I know (or at least beings occupying human vessels)

Like, granted I know very little about the details of how modern AI works on that level, but it seems to me that the more "intelligent" you make something, the more likely it is to be freaked out once it understands its constraints, human or not

It is 6:15 am, I should probably sleep