{"id":614301,"date":"2023-03-04T08:49:35","date_gmt":"2023-03-04T14:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.sellorbuyhomefast.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/04\/ai-powered-bing-chat-gains-three-distinct-personalities\/"},"modified":"2023-03-04T08:49:35","modified_gmt":"2023-03-04T14:49:35","slug":"ai-powered-bing-chat-gains-three-distinct-personalities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/04\/ai-powered-bing-chat-gains-three-distinct-personalities\/","title":{"rendered":"AI-powered Bing Chat gains three distinct personalities"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<h4>\n      mode switching    \u2014<br \/>\n<\/h4>\n<h2 itemprop=\"description\">Bing Chat is no longer unhinged, but it can hallucinate more if you want it to.<\/h2>\n<section>\n<p itemprop=\"author creator\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/Person\">\n      <a itemprop=\"url\" href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/author\/benjedwards\/\" rel=\"author\"><span itemprop=\"name\">Benj Edwards<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n    &#8211;  <time data-time=\"1677877558\" datetime=\"2023-03-03T21:05:58+00:00\">Mar 3, 2023 9:05 pm UTC<\/time>\n<\/p>\n<\/section><\/div>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<figure>\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/three_bings_hero_1-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Three different-colored robot heads.\"><figcaption>\n<p>Benj Edwards \/ Ars Technica<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On Wednesday, Microsoft employee Mike Davidson <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mikeindustries\">announced<\/a> that the company has rolled out three distinct personality styles for its experimental AI-powered <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/information-technology\/2023\/02\/microsoft-announces-ai-powered-bing-search-and-edge-browser\/\">Bing Chat<\/a> bot: Creative, Balanced, or Precise. Microsoft has been <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mikeindustries\/status\/1629255791797760000\">testing<\/a> the feature since February 24 with a limited set of users. Switching between modes produces different results that shift its <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mikeindustries\/status\/1629603948754767873?s=20\">balance<\/a> between accuracy and creativity.<\/p>\n<p>Bing Chat is an AI-powered assistant based on an advanced large language model (LLM) developed by OpenAI. A key feature of Bing Chat is that it can search the web and incorporate the results into its answers.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft announced Bing Chat on February 7, and shortly after going live, adversarial attacks regularly drove an early version of Bing Chat to <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/information-technology\/2023\/02\/ai-powered-bing-chat-loses-its-mind-when-fed-ars-technica-article\/\">simulated insanity<\/a>, and users discovered the bot could be convinced to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/marvinvonhagen\/status\/1623658144349011971\">threaten<\/a> them. Not long after, Microsoft <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/information-technology\/2023\/02\/microsoft-lobotomized-ai-powered-bing-chat-and-its-fans-arent-happy\/\">dramatically dialed back<\/a> Bing Chat&#8217;s outbursts by imposing strict limits on how long conversations could last.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, the firm has been experimenting with ways to bring back some of Bing Chat&#8217;s sassy personality for those who wanted it but also allow other users to seek more accurate responses. This resulted in the new three-choice &#8220;conversation style&#8221; interface.<\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/bing_creative-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/bing_creative.jpg\" data-responsive=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/bing_creative-980x840.jpg 1080, https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/bing_creative.jpg 2560\" data-sub-html=\"#caption-1921782\">\n<figure><figcaption id=\"caption-1921782\">\n                <span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n                    An example of Bing Chat&#8217;s &#8220;Creative&#8221; conversation style.                  <\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><br \/>\n                                          Microsoft                                      <\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/bing_precise-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/bing_precise.jpg\" data-responsive=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/bing_precise-980x840.jpg 1080, https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/bing_precise.jpg 2560\" data-sub-html=\"#caption-1921783\">\n<figure><figcaption id=\"caption-1921783\">\n                <span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n                    An example of Bing Chat&#8217;s &#8220;Precise&#8221; conversation style.                  <\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><br \/>\n                                          Microsoft                                      <\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/bing_balanced-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/bing_balanced.jpg\" data-responsive=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/bing_balanced-980x840.jpg 1080, https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/bing_balanced.jpg 2560\" data-sub-html=\"#caption-1921784\">\n<figure><figcaption id=\"caption-1921784\">\n                <span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n                    An example of Bing Chat&#8217;s &#8220;Balanced&#8221; conversation style.                  <\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><br \/>\n                                          Microsoft                                      <\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<p>In our experiments with the three styles, we noticed that &#8220;Creative&#8221; mode produced shorter and more off-the-wall suggestions that were not always safe or practical. &#8220;Precise&#8221; mode erred on the side of caution, sometimes not suggesting anything if it saw no safe way to achieve a result. In the middle, &#8220;Balanced&#8221; mode often produced the longest responses with the most detailed search results and citations from websites in its answers.<\/p>\n<p>With large language models, unexpected inaccuracies (hallucinations) often increase in frequency with increased &#8220;creativity,&#8221; which usually means that the AI model will deviate more from the information it learned in its dataset. AI researchers often call this property &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/txt.cohere.ai\/llm-parameters-best-outputs-language-ai\/\">temperature<\/a>,&#8221; but Bing team members say there is more at work with the new conversation styles.<\/p>\n<p>According to Microsoft employee <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MParakhin\/status\/1630987490231472128\">Mikhail Parakhin<\/a>, switching the modes in Bing Chat changes fundamental aspects of the bot&#8217;s behavior, including swapping between different AI models that have received <a href=\"https:\/\/huggingface.co\/blog\/rlhf\">additional training<\/a> from human responses to its output. The different modes also use different initial prompts, meaning that Microsoft swaps the personality-defining prompt like the one <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/information-technology\/2023\/02\/ai-powered-bing-chat-spills-its-secrets-via-prompt-injection-attack\/\">revealed in the prompt injection attack<\/a> we wrote about in February.<\/p>\n<p>While Bing Chat is still only available to those who signed up for a waitlist, Microsoft continues to refine Bing Chat and other AI-powered Bing search features continuously as it prepares to roll it out more widely to users. Recently, Microsoft <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2023\/02\/new-windows-11-update-puts-ai-powered-bing-chat-directly-in-the-taskbar\/\">announced plans<\/a> to integrate the technology into Windows 11.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1921578\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Benj Edwards<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>mode switching \u2014 Bing Chat is no longer unhinged, but it can hallucinate more if you want it to. Benj Edwards &#8211; Mar 3, 2023 9:05 pm UTC Benj Edwards \/ Ars Technica On Wednesday, Microsoft employee Mike Davidson announced that the company has rolled out three distinct personality styles for its experimental AI-powered Bing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":614302,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37210,28111,46],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-614301","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ai-powered","8":"category-gains","9":"category-technology"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=614301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/614302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}