Microsoft was quick to limit Bing’s AI chats to prevent disruptive replies, but just days later, the course is changing. That’s what the company says now restore longer chats and begins expanding chats to six rounds per session (up from five) and 60 chats per day (up from 50). The daily cap will soon rise to 100 chats, Microsoft says, and regular searches will no longer count towards that total. However, don’t expect to wreak much havoc when long talks return – Microsoft wants to bring them back “responsibly”.
The tech giant also addresses concerns that Bing’s AI could be too verbose with answers. In an upcoming test, you can choose a tone that is “precise” (ie, shorter and more accurate answers), “creative” (longer), or “balanced.” If you’re only interested in facts, you don’t have to wade through so much text to get them.
There may have been signs of problems much earlier. As Windows headquarters Remarksresearcher dr Gary Marcus and Nomic VP Ben Schmidt discovered public testing of the Bing chatbot (codenamed “Sidney”) in India four months ago produced similarly strange results in long sessions. We reached out to Microsoft for comment, but their latest blog post states that the current preview is intended to capture “atypical use cases” that don’t manifest themselves with internal testing.
