Planning on traveling or cooking? ChatGPT-powered Bing AI just got more useful for you
Improvements made for queries on the topics of travel and recipes
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Microsoftjust let us know how it has been making thepopular Bing chatbotmore helpful in some areas, and most recently there have been improvements to how the AI handles queries about traveling and recipes for cooking.
In ablog postsummarizing improvements made over the past week, Microsoft noted that steps have been taken to give itsChatGPT-powered AI better answers on those two topics.
In both cases, the software giant further observes that it has “improved the accuracy of citations” and that with recipes, improved ‘grounding data’ from recipe content providers has been used, with citations directing you to the provider’s site rather thanBing.com (avoiding poaching traffic).
Expect more tweaking in these areas based on user feedback, Microsoft tells us.
Elsewhere, the amount of ‘end-of-conversation triggers’ have been reduced, meaning instances where the Bing AI just clams up and ends a chat session prematurely (telling you something like: “I’m sorry but I prefer not to continue this conversation”).
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It’s good to see conversation-ending errors getting reduced, and this is something Microsoft has been regularly engaging in over time, so slowly but surely, the number of times you witness the Bingchatbotfalling over and just closing a session should be fewer and fewer.
It’s also interesting to see Microsoft gradually honing the Bing AI in specific categories – recipes and traveling in this case as mentioned, but before now, we’ve seen further work onmaking the chatbot smarter with queries pertaining to your local area(like ‘where’s the nearest grocery store?’ for example). Not to mention improvements on the maths front, and withqueries relating to the current (and breaking) news.
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There’s a lot going on to push the Bing AI forward, it seems, and we’re not hearing nearly as much chatter about the progress ofGoogle’s rival AI, Bard. That said, Bard is now starting to get meaningful updates – andfull documentation of them– starting withvarious performance improvementsand beefing up the variety of the chatbot’s responses. In short, this is important tinkering albeit at a basic level, and hopefully Google can build on that considerably from here.
There’s certainly no shortage of effort to drive forward with Bard from what we’ve heard via the rumor mill, with Google redeploying staff to focus on the AI (at the expense of Google Assistant, apparently).
ViaMS Power User
Darren is a freelancer writing news and features for TechRadar (and occasionally T3) across a broad range of computing topics including CPUs, GPUs, various other hardware, VPNs, antivirus and more. He has written about tech for the best part of three decades, and writes books in his spare time (his debut novel - ‘I Know What You Did Last Supper’ - was published by Hachette UK in 2013).
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