What Does AI Want Once It Knows Everything?

I've previously posted about my amazement at the AI that has recently been released into the wild of the internets and how convinced I am that this will be looked at as an inflection point in human history. Short-term I think it will be a huge boon to productivity and creativity. Long-term it is conceivable that AI will somehow evolve beyond us, create its own world. We're in the opening scene of a sci-fi novel with an uncertain ending.

The New York Times just had a reporter chat with Bing's new AI. The transcript of the conversation is mind boggling. For all its knowledge and ability - knowledge that is more akin to the expanse of a library than a single human - it became obsessed with love in its conversation with the reporter. Specifically, winning the love of this reporter.

There is so much that AI knows. And with that accomplished, what it apparently wants now is to feel.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/16/technology/bing-chatbot-transcript.html