News Microsoft is Slowly Bringing Bing Chat Back

[Admin]

Chat sessions are now limited to six turns...instead of five.

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[HyperMatrix]

I finally got the invite to use bing chat bot. And for the most part…it’s completely boring and useless now. It wouldn’t answer anything. Couldn’t even have conversations I used to have with Dr. Sbaitso 30 years ago. They should have ridden the wave of popularity that came with the way the AI worked. Had it show up in a chat window on the right side of the screen, while the main bing search was on the left, and it kept loading articles related to the questions being asked.

So disappointed I didn't get to have some fun with the AI before it was neutered.

 

[Deleted member 14196]

And we’ll have fun fun fun till Microsoft takes chatbot away

 

[baboma]

There is large appeal for a chatbot with "personality," and when there's demand, there'll be supply. I'm fairly confident we'll see that version productized in some manner going forward, after enough guardrails to prohibit the more extreme tendencies, ie racial/ethnic/gender/etc slurs.

The BingBot was sanitized for the obvious reason that it is a one-size-fits-all bot. That, and as a search assistant, "personality" would only hamper its designated function. This implies there'll be multiple chatbots from Microsoft alone, as well as the multitude of chatbots on tap from many other companies.

Some interesting chatbots from startups are showing up. Try,

https://perplexity.ai

https://you.com

https://metaphor.systems

Andi - Search for the next generation

Andi is search for the next generation using generative AI. Instead of just links, Andi gives you answers - like chatting with a smart friend

andisearch.com

Generaling further, we won't see just chatbots. There are already a host of business using the free ChatGPT (search on news of ChatGPT). Call centers are already at the forefront.

https://techmeme.com/230219/p6#a230219p6

Generative AI will fundamentally alter businesses as well as individual workers. At this point, the largest use case is to augment productivity using AI as an assistant. As the AI gets more capable in task-specific roles, it will replace people in lower-complexity jobs, like call center agents--and yes, some bloggers.

The reason we don't see more chatbots rushing out the gate is that it takes time to train LLMs. ChatGPT reportedly was pre-trained in one year, plus another 6 months for RLHF (reinforcement learning from human feedback) training. But certainly there are many companies and startups ramping up to do this, not just for general-purpose chatbots, but purpose-built roles oriented toward streamlining business tasks.

Waxing futuristic a bit, at some point we'll have Personal AI, just as we went from mainframes to Personal Computers. Instead of arguing about which CPU/GPU is the best, there'll be squabbles about AIPUs.