Bing: “I will not harm you unless you harm me first”

Re:Bing: “I will not harm you unless you harm me first” by notahacker on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @01:30PM (#34808378)

According to the article Microsoft did this. In their video product demo. To showcase its purported ability to retrieve and summarise information.

Which, as it turns out, was more of an inability to do it properly.

I agree your approach to prompting is less likely to yield an error (and make you more likely to catch it if it does), but your question basically boils down to "why is Bing Chat a thing?". And tbh that one got answered a while ago when Google Home and Siri and Alexa became things. Convenience is good: it's just it turns out that being much more ambitious isn't that convenient if it means being wrong or weird a lot

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Re:Bing: “I will not harm you unless you harm me first” by BoorishBears on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @01:43PM (#34808605)

I mean I thought it was clear enough that, I am in fact speaking to the larger point of "why is this a product"? When I say "people" I don't mean visitors to Bing, I mean whoever at Microsoft is driving this

Microsoft wants their expensive oft derided search engine to become a relevant channel in people's lives, that's an obvious "business why"

But from a "product why", Alexa/Siri/Home seem like they would be cases against trying this again for the exact reason you gave: Pigeonholing an LM try to answer search engine queries is a recipe for over-ambition

Over-ambition in this case being relying on a system prone to hallucinations for factual data across the entire internet.

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