Microsoft gives Bing AI chatbot conversation style toggle

Users of the Bing AI chatbot can use a conversation style toggle to indicate whether they want Bing to provide more creative or more accurate answers. Microsoft has already indicated that it is considering such a toggle. The chatbot was more likely to react in a hostile or negative way.

The toggle consists of three settings: creative, balanced or precise. Microsoft president Mikhail Parakhin says on Twitter that the toggle should now be visible to all users. According to Parakhin, the Precise setting, the accurate one, should give ‘more factual’ answers than the other settings. So while the Precise toggle should provide more facts and extra accuracy, the Creative setting should provide ‘original’ responses with ‘surprise and entertainment’.

Behind the different toggles are different models, explains Parakhin. These may be models that are adjusted slightly differently or different reinforcement learning from human feedback models. That rlhf models learning from feedback from human users.

Since mid-February, Microsoft has made the Bing chatbot available to the first test users, a group that is being expanded incrementally. Shortly after launch, Microsoft acknowledged that Bing could generate hostile or negative reactions over longer sessions, adding that it “didn’t fully expect” the chatbot to be used for social entertainment. In addition, the company announced that it is considering a conversation style toggle, which is now available.

Bing conversation style toggle. Source: mashable