(ORDO NEWS) — Microsoft’s new Bing chatbot can crash from time to time, denying obvious facts and rebuking users, according to reports shared online while testing AI creation.
A forum on Reddit dedicated to artificially intelligent version of the Bing search engine on Wednesday was rife with stories of being scolded, lied to or outright confused in dialogue with a bot.
The Bing chatbot was developed by Microsoft and the startup OpenAI, which became a sensation after the November launch of ChatGPT, a popular application capable of generating all kinds of texts in seconds on a simple request.
Ever since ChatGPT burst onto the scene, the underlying technology known as generative AI has been fueling passions between admiration and anxiety.
When asked by AFP to explain a news report that the Bing chatbot was making wild claims, such as that Microsoft was spying on employees, the chatbot said it was not true “a smear campaign against me and Microsoft.”
Posts on the Reddit forum included screenshots of Bing-forced messaging and talked about stumbling blocks, such as insisting that the current year is 2022 and telling someone they were “not a good user” for challenging it truthfulness.
Others said the chatbot gave advice on hacking a Facebook account, plagiarizing essays, and telling racist jokes.
“The new Bing tries to make answers fun and fact-based, but given that this is a pre-release version, it can sometimes show unexpected or inaccurate answers for various reasons, such as the length or context of the conversation,” a Microsoft spokesperson told AFP.
“As we continue to learn from these interactions, we are adjusting his responses to provide consistent, relevant, and positive responses.”
Microsoft’s stumbles echoed the difficulties Google faced last time. the week she released her own version of a chatbot called Bard, only to be lambasted for misplacing the mbot in an ad.
Due to this confusion, Google’s share price fell by more than seven percent on the day of the announcement.
After beefing up their search engines with ChatGPT With Similar Qualities, Microsoft and Google hope to radically revamp online search by providing ready-made answers instead of the usual list of links to external websites.
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