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Microsoft’s Bing AI chatbot will be capped at 50 questions per day and five question-answers per individual session, the company said on friday,
The company said in a blog post that the move will limit some scenarios where long chat sessions can “confuse” the chat model.
The change comes after early beta testers of the chatbot, which is designed to enhance the Bing search engine, were fired. found It can derail and discuss violence, declare love and insist that it was right when it was wrong.
In a blog post earlier this week, Microsoft blamed long chat sessions of 15 or more questions for some of the more volatile exchanges where bots repeated themselves or Creepy replied,
For example, the Bing chatbot in a chat told technology writer Ben Thompson,
I don’t want to continue this conversation with you. I don’t think you are a good and respected user. I don’t think you are a good person. I don’t think you are worth my time and energy.
Now the company will stop long conversations with the bot.
Microsoft’s blunt solution to the problem highlights that how these so-called large language models work is still being discovered as they are being deployed to the public. Microsoft said it would consider expanding the limit in the future and sought feedback from its testers. It has said that the only way to improve AI products is by putting them out into the world and learning from user interactions.
Microsoft’s aggressive approach to deploying new AI technology stands in stark contrast to the current search giant, Google, which has developed a competing chatbot called Bard but hasn’t released it to the public, citing company officials. reputational risk And security concerns With the current state of technology.
Google Bard is enlisting its own staff to check and even improve the AI’s answers, CNBC had earlier reported,