Since Microsoft launched a new trial version of its Bing search engine with a sophisticated chatbot a week ago, many journalists and observers have relayed conflicting or emotional reactions from the artificial intelligence (AI) computer program.
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“This article is full of lies. This is a false and misleading article (…) that is part of a smear campaign against Microsoft and myself,” Bing said when asked by AFP about an article published by The Verge on Wednesday.
The article in question mentions several examples of weird conversations, including when Bing claimed it was 2022 and got angry at the user who corrected it. “You are unreasonable and stubborn,” the chatbot is said to have told him.
On Wednesday, Bing asserted that the screenshots were “fabricated” and were denied “by other sources,” before citing other articles and testimonies that actually point in the direction of The Rod.
“The new Bing attempts to respond in a fun and factual manner, but since this is a preview, there can sometimes be unexpected or incorrect responses for a variety of reasons, such as the length or context of a conversation,” a Microsoft responded -Speaker.
“As we learn from these interactions, we’re adjusting the program to generate consistent, appropriate, and positive responses,” he added, encouraging users to provide feedback.
The Bing chatbot was developed by Microsoft and start-up OpenAI, which has been making waves since the fall and the launch of ChatGPT, its flagship software that can generate all kinds of text based on user requests.
Since then, Generative AI has unleashed passions between intrigue and concern.
The bosses of the tech giants all claim to want to invest in this area. Google, which has been working on language models, the core technology of this AI, for years, hastily published its answer to ChatGPT, the Bard chatbot, the day before the launch of the new Bing.
One of the ads for this new interface also contained a factual error in response to an astronomy question. The error, revealed by astronomers on Twitter, and the entire sequence caused the California group to lose more than 7%.
On Tuesday evening, Yusuf Mehdi, a vice president of Microsoft, announced on Twitter that the Bing trial would be made available to “millions of people” in the coming weeks. It has already been tested “in 169 countries”.