Microsoft is retracting the limitations it placed on its Bing artificial intelligence chatbot after early users participate in strange and unsettling discussions.
Now that longer chats are being promised by the company, the chats will initially be lengthened to six turns per session and 60 chats per day, Engadget says.
The Tech Company Is Quick To Address Concerns Regarding The Chat Tools
Microsoft set a cap on the amount of queries users could ask Bing on Friday at 50 per day and a maximum of five each chat session.
After receiving "feedback" from "many" customers who desired a return to longer discussions, the company increased that limit to six per session and 60 per day on Tuesday and announced it would soon expand it further.
According to Microsoft, the daily cap will soon increase to 100 chats and regular searches will not be included in that total.
Given that the tech giant intends to bring back long discussions "responsibly," users should not anticipate too much chaos from the shift.
According to The Washington Post, Microsoft is attempting to balance releasing its tools into the real world in order to generate marketing buzz and obtain free user testing and feedback.
This is done by restricting what the bot can do and who has access to it in order to keep potentially embarrassing or dangerous technology out of the public eye.
The software company is also addressing worries that Bing's AI may provide answers that are overly verbose.
Users will have the option to select a tone that is "precise" or shorter, more concise responses, "creative" or longer, or "balanced" on an upcoming test.
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The Project Might Already Be Showing Signs Of Trouble
The Bing chatbot (codenamed "Sidney") had been subjected to lengthy periods of public testing four months prior in India, according to researcher Dr. Gary Marcus and Nomic VP Ben Schmidt.
Critics originally praised the company for releasing its chatbot before its arch rival Google, which until recently was widely regarded as the pioneer in AI technology.
Both businesses are competing against one another and smaller businesses to create and demonstrate the technology.
According to a tweet from a Microsoft executive, Bing chat is still only available to a small number of users, but Microsoft is actively approving more users from a waitlist that has millions of names on it.
The company has now framed Bing's rollout as more about testing it and addressing bugs, even though its February 7 launch event was advertised as a major product update that would alter how consumers search online.
The Washington Post writes that a vast amount of unprocessed text from the internet, including everything from social media comments to academic articles, has been used to teach bots like Bing.
They appear to be uncannily humanlike because they can predict the best answer to practically any question based on all that knowledge.
It is notable that researchers in AI ethics have previously issued warnings that these potent algorithms will behave in this manner.
Without the appropriate context, people could mistakenly believe they are sentient or give their responses more weight than they deserve.
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