Test Can Bing AI be used for anything sensible at all You will get the answer to that here

Advertisements from Printix Reap easy savings and optimize security in one fell swoop Printix wraps the entire print infrastructure in encrypted security, provides an overview of actual consumption and the basis for significant savings December 9, 2022 | Read more Ever since Microsoft unveiled its AI-assisted search engine earlier this month, it has been full of news about the search engine's curious and sometimes even threatening behavior, while the search engine's abilities to provide a new search experience have been pushed into the background.

But the potential is enormous, especially because search engines have not developed terribly since Google took over the market in a short time almost 20 years ago This is despite the fact that the search engines are most often signed by the world's most powerful technology giants.

By building artificial intelligence (AI) into the machinery, we now finally have the prospect of a new wave of creative destruction, where a search no longer consists of a sea of ​​answers that Google thinks hits the spot, but instead answers are formulated in Danish , where the artificial intelligence makes a concoction of the internet's most relevant answers The welcome page of the new Bing bot.

After a week, it has not yet learned that I usually write in Danish with the service (Photo: Niels de Boissezon / Computerworld) How does Bing AI work? Bing AI is built around the same type of artificial intelligence that the world saw with the launch of the OpenAI chat robot, ChatGPT.

What the two platforms have in common is that they are built on a language model which strives to understand the meaning of inquiries and can respond again based on the huge datasets from the internet, with which the artificial intelligence is trained However, unlike ChatGPT, Bing AI is trained with newer data and a wider dataset (ChatGPT 3.

5 instead of ChatGPT 3 0), so its knowledge base can provide answers to recent events.

Bing AI, like ChatGPT, is a conversational bot, but it is tuned to primarily be a superstructure for the Bing search engine Otherwise, as Microsoft itself calls it: 'An answer program'.

One of the biggest advantages of the new aim is that Bing AI, unlike ChatGPT, now comes with links and references to the answers it gives In use Bing AI is still in the prototype stage and reserved for invited users of the Bing search engine.

All you need is a personal Microsoft account to sign up as a beta tester for the platform A good two weeks after the launch, not everyone has gained access, but several acquaintances have now joined the fold.

Once inside, the 'chat' feature will appear in the menu bar at the top of the Bing home page when you're logged in From there, a new window opens where you can enter your inputs.

The interface itself is so far very minimalistic, free of ads and works in Danish Will it continue like this, or will it eventually become as overloaded as Bing's home page? Time will tell.

One of my first searches was, of course, to hear what it knows about the undersigned Several (wild) factual errors came back and it started responding in English.

(Photo: Niels de Boissezon / Computerworld) If you ask Bing AI to create a list of cheap electric cars, it will be short and full of errors (Photo: Niels de Boissezon / Computerworld) Acid tendencies Since its debut, Bing AI has made itself heroically famous with its excesses, where particularly long conversations could elicit highly inappropriate behaviour, such as stalker-like behavior or fantasies of breaking out of position and even harming people.

The disturbing behavior is now effectively curbed by Microsoft, which places a strict limit on how long conversations can be A maximum of six questions will be answered per session, after which they will be reset.

The limitation thus prevents the chat bot from going down so-called 'hallucination tracks', where it continues to brew incorrect or inappropriate behavior and can end up in a dark and frightening overdrive What Microsoft Bing AI continues to struggle with, however, is figuring out which information it can trust when passing on information.

For example, when I ask it to list all the electric cars that you can get for under 300,000 kroner, acknowledges it with a flawed and flawed list, where it has clearly taken old prices as a starting point instead of the car manufacturers' own, updated price lists The hallucinations where Bing AI pure invented information also tend to pop up when searching for somewhat narrow topics.

For example, when I ask it to find information about the undersigned, it can tell me about my real career, but at the same time fabricates a 20-year career at Microsoft, where I was supposed to work as a director of Marketing & Operations Bing starts behaving strangely when you ask it to draw a graph.

It seems to want to express itself with something other than signs (Photo: Niels de Boissezon / Computerworld) Missing Extensions An interesting behavior that I have noticed in Bing AI is the willingness to always want to answer, often with conviction, on what is being asked.

Here, Microsoft would perhaps be better served by admitting when it falls short rather than forcing answers that are incorrect or downright incomprehensible I got a glimpse of that when I asked Bing AI to draw an inflation-adjusted graph of CW's parent company's stock.

The search engine acknowledged this by trying to create a graphical display of the share price with a mixture of slashes A mysterious answer where both the axes and the curve were wrong.

Bing AI therefore seems to have a need to be able to use other signs and words to express itself But when it is not allowed, the result is mysterious.

Bing AI is a relatively quick way to find a good shortcrust pastry recipe The fact that it does not mention that the dough must be baked is due to the original source from Mette Blomsterberg, who does not mention it either.

(Photo: Niels de Boissezon / Computerworld) What can it be used for? While it's a fun exercise to conjure up all sorts of involuntarily funny, curious or incorrect responses out of the technology, over time the exercise becomes as productive as getting a tumbler to say nasty words You can get real usability out of the chat search if you know how to get the best out of the search engine.

Here I had a successful experience when I had to find a certain way to clean up fields in Excel sheets where inappropriate formatting meant that numbers could not be copied into sheets and used as numbers It is precisely in such cases, where you ask in ordinary language for concrete information, that the search service comes into its own, for the language understanding, which is embedded in the underlying technology provides more useful search results than all kinds of Google searches, which do not fully understand what it is that you are looking for.

Another place where the potential is great is for simple searches, the kind that bring up 'click-optimized' pages full of ads, pop-up banners and other filler trying to beat one's visit to get maximum traffic ad exposure For example, if you want to look up the date for major prayer days in 2025 or have the basic recipe for a shortcrust pastry.

Still beta After a short week of getting to know Bing AI, one quickly becomes convinced that the AI-assisted search engine is not ready for the broad rollout yet Too many errors and too much fabricated information are provided for the search engine to be trusted.

However, there are several bright spots, which will only shine more clearly with time, because I can already see scenarios where the Bing bot is actually better in use than traditional search engines Here it is important to remember that Bing AI is in its very first beta versions and up against search engines that have been refined over two decades.

Let's give Bing AI a few months to mature a little more .