AI-powered Bing made a number of errors in its demo

NEW DELHI : US-based synthetic intelligence (AI) researcher Dmitri Brereton claims that Microsoft’s new AI-powered Bing search engine made a number of errors throughout its demo final week and generated made-up info.

Unveiled on 7 February by chief govt Satya Nadella, the brand new Bing makes use of Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3 (GPT-3) and guarantees ChatGPT-like experiences to customers throughout the search.

At the revealing occasion, Yusuf Mehdi, client chief advertising officer, additionally gave a demo of how the brand new Bing will deal with searches and reply person queries.

It made a number of errors through the demo, a lot worse than Google’s Bard mistake,” said Brereton in a Twitter post. He also claimed that Bing AI erred again while summarizing a financial document and got most of the numbers wrong.

It’s important to note that last week we announced a preview of this new experience. We’re expecting that the system may make mistakes during this preview period, and user feedback is critical to help identify where things aren’t working well so we can learn and help the models get better. We are committed to improving the quality of this experience over time and to make it a helpful and inclusive tool for everyone,” stated a Microsoft spokesperson.

Brereton has additionally printed a weblog put up summarizing all of the errors made by the brand new Bing through the demo.

Bing AI did an incredible job of making media hype, however their product isn’t any higher than Google’s Bard. At least so far as we are able to inform from the restricted info we’ve about each, stated Brereton within the weblog put up.

AI-powered Bing isn’t the one transformer-based search and chat platform that has made errors in its demo. Last week, Google unveiled its AI chatbot Bard, primarily based on Language Model for Dialogue Applications (LaMDA), which made an error through the demo. Bard claimed within the demo that the James Webb Space Telescope was the primary to take footage of a planet exterior of Earth’s photo voltaic system, which was instantly flagged as inaccurate by area consultants.

Google mother or father Alphabet’s shares fell 7.7% final week wiping $100 billion off its market worth after the error by Bard was detected and reported by Reuters.

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