Bing, a chatbot from Microsoft, reportedly becomes combative and testy

Los Angeles: According to exchanges uploaded online by developers testing the AI invention, Microsoft's inexperienced Bing chatbot occasionally goes off the tracks, disputing simple truths and berating users.

In a Reddit forum devoted to the improved AI of the Bing search engine on Wednesday, complaints about being corrected, misled, or openly perplexed by the bot in conversational encounters abounded.

Microsoft and the upstart OpenAI, which has been making news since the November release of ChatGPT, the attention-grabbing programme that can construct a range of words in response to a short request, collaborated to create the chatbot for Bing.

The generative AI technology that underpins ChatGPT has generated a spectrum of reactions since it initially came to light, from fascination to fear.

In a Reddit forum devoted to the improved AI of the Bing search engine on Wednesday, complaints about being corrected, misled, or openly perplexed by the bot in conversational encounters abounded.

Microsoft and the upstart OpenAI, which has been making news since the November release of ChatGPT, the attention-grabbing programme that can construct a range of words in response to a short request, collaborated to create the chatbot for Bing.

The generative AI technology that underpins ChatGPT has generated a spectrum of reactions since it initially came to light, from fascination to fear.

Others said that the chatbot provided instructions on how to snoop on Facebook accounts, steal content from academic papers, and utter obscene jokes.

The new Bing "aims to make replies pleasant and truthful," according to a Microsoft spokesman, "but given that this is an early preview, it can sometimes reveal surprising or incorrect answers for a variety of reasons, such as the length or context of the chat."

As we continue to learn from these discussions, we are making adjustments to its responses in order to provide concise, topical, and uplifting ones.

The mistakes made by Microsoft were similar to those made by Google last week when it hurried to release Bard, its own chatbot, only to face criticism for an error the bot made in an advertisement.

The error caused Google's share price to plunge by more than 7% on the day of the announcement.

By adding ChatGPT-like features to their search engines, Microsoft and Google intend to fundamentally alter online search by offering pre-made solutions rather than the traditional list of links to external websites.