Microsoft’s Bing AI, like Google’s, also made dumb mistakes during first demo
by Tom Warren from The Verge - All Posts on (#68VCS)
Image: Microsoft Google's AI chatbot isn't the only one to make factual errors during its first demo. Independent AI researcher Dmitri Brereton has discovered that Microsoft's first Bing AI demos were full of financial data mistakes.
Microsoft confidently demonstrated its Bing AI capabilities a week ago, with the search engine taking on tasks like providing pros and cons for top selling pet vacuums, planning a 5-day trip to Mexico City, and comparing data in financial reports. But, Bing failed to differentiate between a corded / cordless vacuum, missed relevant details for the bars it references in Mexico City, and mangled financial data - by far the biggest mistake.
In one of the demos, Microsoft's Bing AI attempts to summarize a Q3 2022 financial...