Microsoft simply tell us the way it has been making the favored Bing chatbot extra useful in some areas, and most just lately there have been enhancements to how the AI handles queries about touring and recipes for cooking.
In a weblog put up (opens in new tab) summarizing enhancements revamped the previous week, Microsoft famous that steps have been taken to offer its ChatGPT-powered AI higher solutions on these two matters.
In each instances, the software program big additional observes that it has “improved the accuracy of citations” and that with recipes, improved ‘grounding information’ from recipe content material suppliers has been used, with citations directing you to the supplier’s website relatively than Bing.com (avoiding poaching visitors).
Anticipate extra tweaking in these areas based mostly on person suggestions, Microsoft tells us.
Elsewhere, the quantity of ‘end-of-conversation triggers’ have been lowered, that means cases the place the Bing AI simply clams up and ends a chat session prematurely (telling you one thing like: “I’m sorry however I want to not proceed this dialog”).
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It’s good to see conversation-ending errors getting lowered, and that is one thing Microsoft has been recurrently participating in over time, so slowly however absolutely, the variety of instances you witness the Bing chatbot falling over and simply closing a session needs to be fewer and fewer.
It’s additionally fascinating to see Microsoft regularly honing the Bing AI in particular classes – recipes and touring on this case as talked about, however prior to now, we’ve seen additional work on making the chatbot smarter with queries pertaining to your native space (like ‘the place’s the closest grocery retailer?’ for instance). To not point out enhancements on the maths entrance, and with queries referring to the present (and breaking) information.
There’s quite a bit occurring to push the Bing AI ahead, it appears, and we’re not listening to practically as a lot chatter in regards to the progress of Google’s rival AI, Bard. That stated, Bard is now beginning to get significant updates – and full documentation of them – beginning with numerous efficiency enhancements and beefing up the number of the chatbot’s responses. In brief, that is necessary tinkering albeit at a fundamental degree, and hopefully Google can construct on that significantly from right here.
There’s definitely no scarcity of effort to drive ahead with Bard from what we’ve heard by way of the rumor mill, with Google redeploying employees to give attention to the AI (on the expense of Google Assistant, apparently).
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