Microsoft now allows you to change Bing’s chatbot character to be extra entertaining

Microsoft has added a brand new function to its Bing chatbot that allows you to toggle between completely different tones for responses. There are three choices for the AI-powered chatbot’s responses: inventive, balanced, and exact. The inventive mode contains responses which can be “authentic and imaginative,” whereas the exact mode favors accuracy and relevancy for extra factual and concise solutions.

Microsoft has set the default for the Bing chatbot to the balanced mode, which it hopes will strike a steadiness between accuracy and creativity. These new chat modes are rolling out to all Bing AI customers proper now, and round 90 % of customers needs to be seeing them already.

The brand new modes ought to assist counter the wild outbursts we initially noticed with the Bing AI chatbot. Microsoft was fast so as to add some tight restrictions to Bing AI after loads of impolite responses made the rounds on Twitter and Reddit, and the software program maker has been loosening these restrictions in current days.

The brand new toggle for Bing AI. Picture: Microsoft

A few of these restrictions made Bing chat really feel somewhat unresponsive, the place the chatbot would merely refuse to reply many questions it confidently answered earlier than Microsoft took motion. Microsoft has mounted a lot of the unresponsive issues, because of a brand new replace that was utilized to its Bing chat service earlier this week.

The replace features a “important discount in circumstances the place Bing refuses to answer for no obvious motive,” in keeping with Mikhail Parakhin, the top of internet providers at Microsoft. It must also imply “decreased situations of hallucination in solutions,” so hopefully the Bing chatbot produces much less wild responses.