Microsoft continues to play around with its new artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot Bing Chat, this time tweaking its personality to be less stubborn and more helpful.
Bing Chat, powered by ChatGPT, received a lot of hype when it launched in March, letting you ask all sorts of questions and respond intelligently in a chat-like interface. Even better, you could ask it to create things, like images or even code apps, and it would do so.
However, if anyone has used it recently, you may have noticed that Bing Chat has developed a certain attitude and refuses to create certain things. This is exactly what happened to me when I asked him to help me design a new operating system for an upcoming article: he stubbornly refused to help me, even though he had happily done so a few days before.
This was not only frustrating, but it also took a lot of the fun out of using Bing Chat. So, it's good to see news (as reported by Neowin (opens in a new tab)) that Microsoft is rolling out an update to fix this issue.
According to a tweet from Mikhail Parakhin, Microsoft's head of advertising and web services, a new update is rolling out that "should see a big reduction in the number of instances where Bing Chat refuses to create something (write code, for example). )". .
Start submitting Prompt v98 today - It's a two-step process, by tomorrow you should see a big reduction in the number of cases where Bing Chat refuses to create something (write code, for example). Then, the second stage will be deployed, reducing dismissals. April 5, 2023
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According to Parakhin, this update (known as Bing Chat v98) will come in two stages. The first will reduce cases where Bing refuses to help build things, while the second stage will reduce "unbinds". I'm assuming you're referring to those, again frustrating, times when Bing Chat will consider a chat or task complete when it's not.
Parakhin also responded to people who asked about the new Bing Image Creator feature, which was recently introduced to allow users to create AI-generated illustrations through Bing Chat, but some people found it quite limited. Parakhin says that this feature is rapidly improving.
Also improving rapidly, much better than when we first published it. April 5, 2023
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It's good to see Microsoft continue to improve Bing Chat - there's a lot of potential here, and the company should be delighted that people are now genuinely interested in Bing. It certainly seems to have captured the public imagination in the same way that Google's rival Bard AI hasn't, and to keep us interested, Bing needs to keep evolving. So far, Microsoft seems to agree.