Microsoft execs purportedly had "misgivings about the timing of ChatGPT’s launch."
  • Valliac@beehaw.orgEnglish
    20·
    2 years ago

    Standard business practice.

    • Get it out there, tout it as the new biggest thing. Most people won’t know it’s not busted.
    • Improve said item once the company behind it actually figures out what they’re doing.
    • Say it’s better, when it’s basically the original thing you promised.
    • ???
    • Profit.
    • Gork@beehaw.orgEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      Whoa there slow down there maestro. New and Improved‽ By golly this thingy gets better and better-er, to which corporate department do I need to make this comically sized check out to?

  • hellskis@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    2 years ago

    I wish tech companies would do this more. Put a warning or label on it if you have to, but interacting with that early version of the Bing chatbot was the most fun I had with tech in awhile. You don’t have to install a ton of guardrails on everything before it goes out to the public.

    • ayyndrew@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      No number of restrictions or warnings or labels or checkboxes will stop people from writing articles about how all the scandalous things Microsoft’s chatbot said

    • bood@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      It’s practically lobotomized now…not that it was “Tay” levels of unrestricted early on, but it was still more fun than its current iteration.

  • virtualras@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    2 years ago

    Didn’t they do this before and people turned it racist in like, 12 hours? I think Internet Historian had something on it

  • ozoned@beehaw.orgEnglish
    6·
    2 years ago

    Execs: “We don’t have time for stupid things like ‘ready’! We want MONEY! Push early! Push often! It’ll maybe someday work, in the meantime… MONEY!”

  • Muddybulldog@mylemmy.winEnglish
    5·
    2 years ago

    I had a conversation with Bing today, asking it for configuration snippets for logging on my Lemmy instance.

    It happily spat out a config, which I cut and pasted, that subsequently barfed.

    I give Bing the error message and it explained that the parameters that it had previously supplied don’t exist.

    Good job, MS!

  • gabuwu@beehaw.orgEnglish
    5·
    2 years ago

    I know the ethics behind it are questionable especially with the way they implemented but honestly for the time when they first started testing it, I really enjoyed watching it break and it be rude/passive aggressive. Like it was clear it wasn’t ready at all but it was so funny. When it was breaking I would just sit there having fights with it over random bullshit. That’s what made it feel more “real” more than anything else.

    In the future if my AI chatbot doesn’t have an option to add some bitchiness to it, I don’t want it. I need my AI to have some attitude.

  • dekwast@lemmy.oneEnglish
    4·
    2 years ago

    They are competitors after all. Openai would love to see Microsoft keep working on gpt integration for the coming years while Chatgpt steals the show.

  • Pekka@feddit.nlEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Interesting article, I personally use both Bing Chat and ChatGPT, ChatGPT is often more creative and Bing Chat seems to be trained more to answer your question. So their purpose is also somewhat different. It will be interesting to see Bing search integrated into ChatGPT later.

    But some moves are just weird, Microsoft released Bing Image Creator (powered by Dalle 2) that lets you generate many images for free, meanwhile Dalle 2 on the Open AI website costs credits and produces results that are worse. The only advantage of Dalle 2 on the Open AI website seems to be that you can extend and edit the image by removing parts of the image and letting Dalle 2 generate those parts based on a prompt. But for most purposes, Microsoft has really just put out a better alternative for free.

    • frozengriever@beehaw.orgEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Good to know that Bing also has a free image creator. Much more accessible as a starting point to play around with compared to Dalle or Midjourney

      • bood@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        2 years ago

        Don’t prompt it with “Bing” - it’s a no no word. Learned that the hard way and then got a super scary “you’ll get b& if u keep breakin content policy” message…the damn chat side auto-suggested it generate an image of itself wearing a crown I asked it to find, lol