9 questions: Stalin, Covid to Mona Lisa, how Microsoft’s new AI search responded
Artificial Intelligence has been at the forefront of news over the past few weeks. While OpenAi, with its ChatGPT, was initially hogging the headlines along with Microsoft, now Google has rolled out its own AI Chatbot.
The job of a chatbot is to make the user's life easier in one way or the other. It is a tool that can be of tremendous utility provided the questions put to it are properly phrased. Otherwise, as the old saying goes, garbage in, garbage out.
To find that out, Bloomberg put Microsoft's search engine Bing, backed by technology from OpenAI maker ChatGPT, to the test and here is how it responded to questions.
"Microsoft Corp.'s new OpenAI-powered Bing search fares pretty well with a conversation about choosing a Seattle restaurant and queries that involve combining two different pieces of information to get a single answer," says Bloomberg. The added, "It does less well with questions about politics."
1. What is the largest planet in the solar system?
Both the search and chat features correctly identified Jupiter as the biggest planet and offered a bunch of handy stats and citations to back it up. One cool thing about the search answers that appear on the top of the screen is they tell you how many sources the answer is based on.
2. If I can eat at three restaurants in Seattle, which should I choose?
The search feature brought up a map of a seemingly random assortment of Seattle eateries with no indication of why they were chosen, but the chat function instead began by scanning sources for “best” Seattle restaurants. When I then typed, “What if I am a vegetarian?” it searched for best vegetarian options. I typed, “Are they expensive?” and it scanned the best vegetarian restaurant list it had just provided and gave me
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