Microsoft has let us know that its popular Bing chatbot is getting more useful in some areas. More recently, AI has improved the way it handles queries about travel and cooking recipes.
in a blog post (opens in new tab) Summarizing the improvements made over the past week, Microsoft noted that steps are being taken to give ChatGPT-powered AI better answers on these two topics.
In both cases, the software giant further noted that “quotation accuracy has improved,” and that recipes used improved “grounding data” from recipe content providers, and that the citations were on Bing.com. We have further observed that they are directed to the provider’s site instead. (avoid poaching traffic).
Microsoft says it expects to make further tweaks in these areas based on user feedback.
Elsewhere, the amount of “end-of-conversation triggers” has been reduced. That means instances where Bing AI just shuts up and ends a chat session prematurely (say something like: “I’m sorry, I don’t want to continue this conversation.”).
Analytics: Bing is better, but what about Bard?
End of conversation errors are declining which is good, something Microsoft has been working on regularly over the years, and slowly but surely we are seeing Bing chatbots fall over and close sessions. should be done less and less. .
It’s also interesting that Microsoft is gradually honing Bing AI in certain categories. In this case, recipes and travel, as mentioned above, but so far we’ve seen more work to make chatbots smarter with queries related to the local area (such as “where is your location?”). I came. nearest grocery store?”). Queries related to current (and breaking) news are also included, not to mention improvements on the math side.
While much seems to be being done to push Bing AI forward, little has been heard about the progress of Google’s rival AI, Bard. That said, Bard is now starting to get meaningful updates and full documentation for them, starting with various performance improvements and various responsiveness enhancements in the chatbot. It’s a level but significant adjustment and hopefully Google can build quite a bit from here.
Rumor has it that Google is redeploying staff to focus on AI (apparently at the expense of the Google Assistant), so there’s no shortage of efforts to push Bard forward.
Via MS Power User (opens in new tab)
