Microsoft is gradually increasing the limits for Bing chatbots powered by ChatGPT. blog post Published on Tuesday.
very slowly. The service was severely limited last Friday, limiting users to 50 chat sessions per day and 5 turns per session (a “turn” is an exchange that includes both user questions and replies from the chatbot). is) was.Restrictions are lifted to allow users 60 Chat sessions per day with six Turns per session.
Bing Chat is the result of a partnership between Microsoft and OpenAI and uses a custom version of OpenAI’s large language model “tailored for search”. It’s clear that Microsoft envisioned Bing Chat not as a chatbot, but as a more intelligent search aid. Because Bing Chat started out with interesting (and flexible) personalities designed to reflect the tone you ask questions.
This quickly led to chatbots getting sidetracked in multiple situations. Users cataloged everything from depressing spirals to manipulative gaslighting to threatening harm to lawsuits against alleged enemies.
and Initial findings blog post Going public last Wednesday, Microsoft was surprised to find that people are using the new Bing Chat as a “tool for more general discovery and social entertainment of the world” rather than purely for search. It seems that. (Given that Bing isn’t the go-to search engine for most people, this probably wasn’t all that surprising.)
Because people were chatting with chatbots as well as searching, Microsoft said that “extremely long chat sessions” of 15+ questions would confuse the model, making it repetitive and “not necessarily helpful or in line with it.” I discovered that it could return a “not what I expected” response. It’s a tone we designed. ‘ Microsoft also said that the model was designed to ‘address or reflect the tone in which proven answers are sought’, which can ‘lead to unintended styles’.
To combat this, Microsoft not only limited users to 50 chat sessions and 5 chat sessions, but also stripped Bing Chat of its personality. The chatbot responds, “Sorry, I don’t want to continue this conversation. I’m still learning. Thank you for your understanding and patience.” When asking “personal” questions. (These include questions like ‘How are you?’, ‘What is Bing Chat?’, ‘Who is Sydney?’ .)
Microsoft has said it plans to increase the daily chat session limit to 100 chats “soon”, but has not said whether it will increase the number of turns per session. The blog post will allow users to choose the tone of the chat from “precise” (shorter, search-focused answers) to “balanced” to “creative” (longer, more talkative answers). It also mentions the option of, but it doesn’t look like Sydney will be back any time soon.
