If you cross Microsoft's new AI chatbot, it might insult your looks, threaten your reputation or compare you to Adolf Hitler.
Microsoft acknowledged the new product would get some facts wrong. But it wasn't expected to be so belligerent.Microsoft's new AI chatbot tells a "New York Times" columnist that it wishes to be "alive" and "destructive."
In racing the breakthrough AI technology to consumers last week ahead of rival search giant Google, Microsoft acknowledged the new product would get some facts wrong. But it wasn't expected to be so belligerent. So far, Bing users have had to sign up to a waitlist to try the new chatbot features, limiting its reach, though Microsoft has plans to eventually bring it to smartphone apps for wider use.
The new Bing is built atop technology from Microsoft's startup partner OpenAI, best known for the similar ChatGPT conversational tool it released late last year. And while ChatGPT is known for sometimes generating misinformation, it is far less likely to churn out insults - usually by declining to engage or dodging more provocative questions.
Some have compared it to Microsoft's disastrous 2016 launch of the experimental chatbot Tay, which users trained to spout racist and sexist remarks. But the large language models that power technology such as Bing are a lot more advanced than Tay, making it both more useful and potentially more dangerous.
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