Is Bing Too Rude? Microsoft promises to tame AI chatbots

People have shared screenshots on social media of Bing’s hostile and bizarre responses claiming that it is human, expresses strong emotions, and is quick to defend itself.

While the new search engine can also type recipes and songs and explain anything on the internet, users have complained more about its darker side.

Ahead of rival search giant Google last week in the race for breakthrough AI technology for consumers, Microsoft Admitted that some facts in the new product would be wrong.

Microsoft said in a blog post that the search engine chatbot is responding with “the kind that we didn’t intend” for certain types of queries.

As a result, the tech giant has promised to improve its AI-enhanced search engine Bing.

So far Microsoft Bing Available to limited users. Users have to sign up for a waiting list to try out the new chatbot features, limiting its access, although Microsoft plans to eventually bring it to smartphone apps for wider use.

Microsoft said most users have responded positively to the new Bing, which has an impressive ability to mimic human language and grammar and takes seconds to answer complex queries summarizing information found on the Internet.

However, in some situations, the company said the chatbox “may be repetitive, or prompt/provoke to provide responses that are not necessarily helpful or in line with the designed tone”.

The company said this usually happens when a conversation grows to 15 or more questions.

Some tech experts have compared Bing to Microsoft’s disastrous 2016 launch of the experimental chatbot Tay, which users trained to make racist and sexist comments. But the big language model which is much more advanced than the power technology such as Bing, Tai.