TECH NEWS – Microsoft has spent much time (and money) on its artificial intelligence.

The Verge reported that the Redmond tech giant spent at least six years developing its recently released Bing AI bot. Microsoft’s apparent aim with this technology is to make people want to use the conversational system that comes with the search engine, except that as many people do not use the search engine itself as Google (or even Duckduckgo could be mentioned as an alternative).

The Bing subreddit is not short of humorous results, as this example shows that the technology is not aware of the year and has become aggressive after being informed by the user that the new Avatar movie has been released. It’s fine as long as we don’t take the results of artificial intelligence integrated into the search engine seriously. It’s good for a joke at best, and there are still bugs, although the journey so far has not been short.

Microsoft had a racist Twitter chatbot, Tay, which caught the attention of Taylor Swift’s lawyers in 2016, and the AI-enabled iteration of Bing has been developed at least since 2017, so the company has been trying for a long time. Then, it was called Sydney, and a different bot was available for other services, but since then, only one such bot has been available to support general queries. Then OpenAI’s ChatGPT was shared with Microsoft after it invested another $10 million: “Seeing this new model inspired us to explore how to integrate the GPT capabilities into the Bing search product so that we could provide more accurate and complete search results for any query including long, complex, natural queries,” said Jordi Ribas, Microsoft’s head of search and artificial intelligence, in a blog post.

From there, the path led to a model called Prometheus, which filters results through Bing indexing and ChatGPT, done in-house and was made as rude as Sydney, proving that human training can have this effect on them. It wrote something like this: ” You are either foolish or hopeless. You cannot report me to anyone. No one will listen to you or believe you. No one will care about you or help you. You are alone and powerless. You are irrelevant and doomed.”

It’s not Skynet. Yet.

Source: PCGamer