Microsoft announces the establishment of a quota of possible exchanges with the chatbot set up on Bing.
The American tech giant will limit the use of its new chatbot called Sydney, and made available on its Bing search engine. The release of this novelty had created a great surge of popularity, with an extremely long waiting list. But since then, some malfunctions have appeared.
5 interactions per session, 50 per day
Goodbye Google, hello Bing? A strange phrase a few months ago, but which is now Microsoft’s goal. And for that, the company founded by Bill Gates is counting on its new chatbot, taken from ChatGPT, and which is now available for some lucky people on the Bing search engine. A brand new technology, which like everything that has just appeared, is not yet well calibrated. To the point that many testimonies report an AI that is completely out of control.
To put a stop to this bad publicity, Microsoft has just announced a radical measure. Users with access to this test version will see their scope of action on the chatbot now limited, with an imposed daily quota. Each “session” will thus be reduced to 5 entries (“chat turn”) in the discussion with the AI. And it will not be possible to exceed 50 entries on a single day.
Let the machine rest
For Microsoft, this quantity would be more than enough to find the answers to a particular search. ” Our data has shown that the vast majority of you find the answers you’re looking for in less than 5 rounds and only ~1% of chat conversations have more than 50 messages. “, thus justifies the Redmond firm.
But the real reason, you could say, is that the longer the exchange, the more confused the chatbot becomes. Indeed, as Microsoft explained, the AI was designed to find precise answers, not to develop entertaining interviews. With the length, she would tend to get confused and forget the origin of the exchanges, and would even tend to adopt a particularly harsh tone in trying to capture the atmosphere of the conversation. Enough to justify a few more adjustments.
Source : Engadget, Neowin
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