Microsoft explains Bing's bizarre AI chat behavior
Those"long, extended chat sessions of 15 or more questions" can send things off the rails."Bing can become repetitive or be prompted/provoked to give responses that are not necessarily helpful or in line with our designed tone," the company said. That apparently occurs because question after question can cause the bot to"forget" what it was trying to answer in the first place.
The other issue is more complex and interesting:"The model at times tries to respond or reflect in the tone in which it is being asked to provide responses that can lead to a style we didn’t intend," Microsoft wrote. It takes a lot of prompting to get that to happen, but the engineers think they might be able to fix it by giving users more control.
Despite those issues, testers have generally given Bing's AI good marks on citations and references for search, Microsoft said, though it needs to get better with"very timely data like live sports scores." It's also looking to improve factual answers for things like financial reports by boosting grounding data by four times. Finally, they'll be"adding a toggle that gives you more control on the precision vs. creativity of the answer to tailor to your query.
The Bing team thanked users for the testing to date, saying it"helps us improve the product for everyone." At the same time, they expressed surprise that folks would spend up to two hours in chat sessions. Users will no doubt be just as diligent trying to break any new updates, so we could be in for an interesting ride over the next while.
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