Subj : Planning on traveling or cooking? ChatGPT-powered Bing AI just go
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From : TechnologyDaily
Date : Sun Apr 30 2023 20:00:04

Planning on traveling or cooking? ChatGPT-powered Bing AI just got more 
useful for you

Date:
Sun, 30 Apr 2023 18:37:12 +0000

Description:
Microsoft keeps pushing hard to advance Bing in specific areas  is it now 
leaving Googles Bard AI far behind?

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Microsoft just let us know how it has been making the popular Bing chatbot 
more helpful in some areas, and most recently there have been improvements to 
how the AI handles queries about traveling and recipes for cooking. 

In a blog post summarizing improvements made over the past week, Microsoft 
noted that steps have been taken to give its ChatGPT -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 
providers site rather than Bing.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: Im sorry but I prefer not to 
continue this conversation). Analysis: Bing bolstered, but what about Bard? 

Its 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 Bing chatbot falling over and 
just closing a session should be fewer and fewer. 

Its also interesting to see Microsoft gradually honing the Bing AI in 
specific categories  recipes and traveling in this case as mentioned, but 
before now, weve seen further work on making the chatbot smarter with queries 
pertaining to your local area (like wheres the nearest grocery store? for 
example). Not to mention improvements on the maths front, and with queries 
relating to the current (and breaking) news . 

Theres a lot going on to push the Bing AI forward, it seems, and were not 
hearing nearly as much chatter about the progress of Googles rival AI, Bard. 
That said, Bard is now starting to get meaningful updates  and full 
documentation of them  starting with various performance improvements and 
beefing up the variety of the chatbots responses. In short, this is important 
tinkering albeit at a basic level, and hopefully Google can build on that 
considerably from here. 

Theres certainly no shortage of effort to drive forward with Bard from what 
weve heard via the rumor mill, with Google redeploying staff to focus on the 
AI (at the expense of Google Assistant, apparently). 

Via MS Power User



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