Microsoft mentioned it is increasing the lengths of chats individuals can have with the check model of its Bing AI, whereas the corporate’s additionally begun testing completely different “tone” personalities for extra exact or extra inventive responses. The corporate’s strikes comply with efforts to limit entry to the expertise after media protection of the substitute intelligence chatting app going off the rails went viral final week.

Bing Chat can now reply to as much as six questions or statements in a row per dialog, after which individuals might want to begin a brand new subject, the corporate mentioned in a weblog put up Tuesday. Microsoft had beforehand imposed a dialog restrict of 5 responses, with a most of fifty whole interactions per day. Microsoft mentioned it should now enable 60 whole interactions per day and plans to extend that whole to 100 “quickly.”

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Microsoft also said it’s testing options for people to choose the tone of their conversations, whether they prefer Bing to be more precise in its responses, more creative or somewhere between the two. 

Ultimately, the tech giant said it hopes to allow longer and more intricate conversations over time but wants to do so “responsibly.” 

“The very reason we are testing the new Bing in the open with a limited set of preview testers is precisely to find these atypical use cases from which we can learn and improve the product,” the company said in a statement.

Microsoft’s moves mark the latest twist for its Bing AI chatbot, which made a splash when it was announced earlier this month. The technology combines Microsoft’s less-popular Bing search engine with technology from startup OpenAI, whose ChatGPT responds to prompts for everything from being asked to write a poem to helping write code and even everyday math to figure out how many bags can fit in a car.

Experts believe this new type of technology, called “generative AI,” has the potential to remake the way we interact with technology. Microsoft, for example, demonstrated how its Bing AI could help someone plan a vacation day by day with relative ease. 

Last week, though, critics raised concerns that Microsoft’s Bing AI may not be ready for prime time. People with early access began posting bizarre responses the system was giving them, including Bing telling a New York Times columnist to abandon his marriage, and the AI demanding an apology from a Reddit user over whether we’re in 2022 or 2023.

Microsoft said that the “long and intricate” chat sessions that prompted many of the unusual responses were “not something we would typically find with internal testing.” But it hopes that improvements to the program, including its potential new choice of tone for responses, will help give people “more control on the type of chat behavior to best meet” their needs.

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