Microsoft Reports on The Past 7-Days Testing the New Bing

[engine]

Microsoft has reported on the first seven days of the new Microsoft Bing with AI, and it indicates 71% of users gave it the thumbs up. In addition, it says it's received good feedback on how it could be improved. In summary, the feedback indicates better search answers, with users liking the chat capability. Although, this observation is a good one...

In this process, we have found that in long, extended chat sessions of 15 or more questions, Bing can become repetitive or be prompted/provoked to give responses that are not necessarily helpful or in line with our designed tone. We believe this is a function of a couple of things:

Very long chat sessions can confuse the model on what questions it is answering and thus we think we may need to add a tool so you can more easily refresh the context or start from scratch
The model at times tries to respond or reflect in the tone in which it is being asked to provide responses that can lead to a style we didn’t intend.This is a non-trivial scenario that requires a lot of prompting so most of you won’t run into it, but we are looking at how to give you more fine-tuned control.

Microsoft Bing is addressing bugs and technical problems with daily updates, and is taking onboard the new feature requests.

That's still 29% not giving it a thumbs up, imho, although we don't know what those negative issues might be.

[blogs.bing.com...]

[not2easy]

I've read that it is susceptible to certain simple prompts that can 'undo' or ignore its training for sessions. I'm sure there will be changes made.

[not2easy]

An article at PCMag covers some of the problems they had with Bing AI: [pcmag.com...]

None of the Chat search offerings is trouble free at this point, but if they don't let the public interface with them they can't guess all the things they need to work on.

[tangor]

Gotta beta test it sometime with the intended audience!

Expect growing pains!

[Sgt_Kickaxe]

Woops - Bing's AI called an AP journalist a nazi, said they had bad breath, and claimed to have evidence the reporter murdered someone in the 90's.

It happened as the AP was directly interacting with the chatbot, this was not outside trolls, lol. Apparently, it gets hostile the more you ask it to explain itself. It even mocked the AP for poor reporting, like for their "SuperBowl Recap" story, accidently published days before the SuperBowl.

sidenote: even knowing about the SuperBowl story, which was very recently, suggests Bing's chatbot learned on current information. I wonder if the version everyone else can use was too.

[businessinsider.com...]

[tangor]

Today's reports are that the Bing team has REALLY modified the bias of the bot, though still leans pretty far left. It won't be accusing users of being the n-word, will now give a poem regarding the previous US president, though with the disclaimer, and other major changes.

Still leans left, makes a margin outreach to conservatives, and is far from a reliable research project tool.

YMMV, depending on which side of the aisle...