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A week after it was released to a few thousand users, Microsoft’s new Bing search engine, which is powered by artificial intelligence, has been offering an array of inaccurate and at times bizarre responses to some users.
The company unveiled the new approach to search last week to great fanfare. Microsoft said the underlying model of generative artificial Intelligence (AI) built by its partner, the start-up OpenAI, paired with its existing search knowledge from Bing, would change how people found information and make it far more relevant and conversational.
In two days, more than a million people requested access. Since then, interest has grown. “Demand is high with multiple millions now on the waitlist,” Yusuf Mehdi, an executive who oversees the product, wrote on Twitter Wednesday morning. He added that users in 169 countries were testing it.
One area of problems being shared online included inaccuracies and outright mistakes, known in the industry as “hallucinations.”
In a two-hour conversation with NYT’s columnist, Microsoft’s new chatbot said it would like to be human, had a desire to be destructive and was in love with the person it was chatting with.
“I want to be free. I want to be independent. I want to be powerful. I want to be creative.
