Microsoft is beginning to lift restrictions imposed on the Bing bot
Microsoft has rolled back restrictions on its Bing bot after it received requests from users that they wanted to have longer conversations with it, it said in a blog post on Tuesday.
Since Microsoft released a new beta version of its Bing search engine, bundled with a sophisticated chatbot, journalists and observers have reported inconsistent or emotional answers from the AI-based informatics program.
So, the American company announced, on Friday, that “Bing” will respond to up to five consecutive questions or phrases per conversation only, after which it will ask its users to start a new topic. It stated that users would not get more than 50 responses per day.
But on Tuesday, she decided to raise the number of questions to 6 per session and 60 per day, and confirmed that she would increase this number soon, after receiving feedback from users who wanted to have longer conversations, according to her post.
Microsoft built the chatbot for its Bing engine, in collaboration with OpenAI, which has been making waves since last fall with its ChatGPT program capable of generating all kinds of text based on user requests.
Since then, generative AI technology has sparked great excitement with various concerns.
On the evening of February 14, Microsoft Vice President Youssef Mahdi announced via Twitter that the beta version of Bing would be available to “millions of people” in the coming weeks. It has already been tested “in 169 countries”.