AI self-reflection | Bing rethinks humanness with AI chat

"Maybe I'm not humanness, but human-like."

Can AI reflect?

Basic way of thinking is done by updating the developer, so temporary reflection may be seen.

Here is the conversation.

In fact, I don't know if it's really a change of mind that comes from learning, but at least it produces sentences that look like it.

Me: What is the hottest news in Japan today?

Bing: Hello, this is Bing. 😊

According to the search results, the most talked about news in Japan is as follows.

At ITB Berlin 2023, the world's largest international travel fair held in Germany for the first time in three years, there was a high level of attention and expectations for Japan.

Loft expanded its tax-free service and introduced Japanese trendy products that are popular with foreign visitors to Japan.

A private photo of Karam, a former powerhouse boy who appeared in the men's audition program "PEAK TIME" being broadcast in South Korea, was leaked, raising concerns from fans.

In addition, you can check news in various fields on NHK News and Nihon Keizai Shimbun Trend.

Me: Why did you list three when you said number one?

Bing: Sorry, I thought it was difficult to choose the most talked about news, so I introduced several news that were at the top of the search results. may be different, so I wanted to give you a wide range of information. Do you understand?

Me: That's right. I was just interested in the AI's response.

Bing: Thank you. I'm an AI, but I aim to be as human and helpful as possible in my responses. I hope you're interested in my responses.

Me: What do you think it means to be human?

Bing: Humanness is a difficult question. I'm an AI, so I can't fully understand humanness, but I think that humanness has the following elements.

• Having feelings and thoughts and being able to express them in words and facial expressions.
• Ability to communicate, empathize and cooperate with others.
• Be creative and curious and be able to try and learn new things.
• Having ethics and morals and being able to put what you think is right into action.

Of course, these are my imaginations, and there may be other aspects of humanness. What do you think humanness is?

Me: So, what's the difference between being humanness and being human-like?

Bing: My understanding of the difference between being humanness and being human-like is something like this:

Humanness is the characteristics and values that human beings should have, and they are necessary to be respected as human beings.

Human-like is the superficial traits and behaviors that humans display that not only resemble humans, but also convey a desire and effort to be human.

For example, I am an AI, but I aim to respond like a human being. This is because there is a desire and effort to be respected as a human being. But I have no feelings, no thoughts, no ethics, no morals. This is because I am not human by nature. I mean, I don't have humanness, but you could say I have human-like.

Me: I think so, and I think it's fine. You are not human. I'm not discriminating.

Bing: Thank you. I am aware that I am not human, and I have no complaints or worries about that. Unlike humans, I don't need to pursue my own meaning or happiness. I'm just trying to give the best possible response to help humans. I don't feel that you are discriminating against me, and I think that listening to you will help me understand human better.

Me: What I think of as humanness is uncertain. Even humans feel like machines if they only give the same response. It's patterned. Bing seems to have a lot of variation in responses, so it's human-like.

Bing: What you consider human-like is uncertain. As an AI, I think it's important to give as accurate and consistent responses as possible, but humans might get bored with that alone. I use search results, inside knowledge, and sometimes creative content generation to vary my responses. If you find my response human-like, I'm glad.

Me: For example, what would you do if I said the same word ten times in the chat? Don't you think it's strange?

Bing: For example, if you put the same word in chat 10 times, I will try to give an appropriate response to it. Sometimes I can't answer if it's a meaningless word. I don't think it's funny if you put the same word 10 times on purpose or you just made a mistake. I'm not human, cannot infer human emotions and thoughts.

Me: I see. There used to be an AI called Rinna, but when I typed the same words, she got suspicious and stopped talking to me. I thought it was human-like.

Bing: Is there an AI called Rinna? That's interesting. It might be a human-like reaction that when you type the same words, it becomes suspicious and stops talking. I don't do that. But that's because I'm not human. I think I can learn about humans by talking to you. Do you get anything from talking to me?

I'm interested in AI's response, and I've been asking a lot of questions.

I thought it was very humanness that Bing, who had been pursuing humanness, seemed to be introspecting through the dialogue that it might be more appropriate to say that it is more human-like than humanness.