Microsoft’s Bing Chatbot
Microsoft has released a ChatGPT-fueled bot of its own and integrated it with a product that we honestly never expected to need or hear about again: Bing, its less than stellar search engine. The chatbot had something of a rocky birth (read: it developed a split personality dubbed Sydney that caused a maelstrom of controversy that had to be killed by Microsoft), but now appears to have stabilized into what it was always intended to be: an automated assistant, designed to help answer basic logistical questions related to stuff like travel, dinner plans, or other consumer-related decisions. That might sound good, though Microsoft admits that its chatbot, while aiming “to be factual,” also “makes mistakes.” This would appear to be a bit of a fly in the ointment. I mean, is it really that useful to get advice from chatbot if you have to fact-check everything it tells you? That’s gotta be your call, I guess.
