Page 12 - aruba-today-20230210

A12 TECHNOLOGY
Friday 10 February 2023

Microsoft employee Alex Buscher demonstrates a search feature integration of Microsoft Bing
search engine and Edge browser with OpenAI on Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023, in Redmond.
Associated Press

AI search engines can now chat with

us, but glitches abound

By MATT O’BRIEN chatbot, Microsoft execu- mar. But what the newest
AP Technology Writer tives said this week they crop of search chatbots
REDMOND, Wash. (AP) — had been hard at work on promise that ChatGPT
Nearly a quarter-century the project since last sum- doesn’t have is the im-
after Google’s search en- mer. But the excitement mediacy of what can be
gine began to reshape around ChatGPT brought found in a web search.
how we use the internet, new urgency. Ask the preview version of
big tech companies are “The reception to ChatGPT the new Bing for the latest
racing to revamp a familiar and how that took off, that news or just what people
web tool into a gateway to was certainly a surprise,” are talking about on Twitter
a new form of artificial intel- said Yusuf Medhi, the ex- and it summarizes a selec-
ligence. ecutive leading Microsoft’s tion of the day’s top stories
If it seems like this week’s consumer division, in an or trends, with footnotes
newly announced AI interview. “How rapidly it linking to media outlets or
search chatbots Google’s went mainstream, where other data sources.
Bard, Baidu’s Ernie Bot and everybody’s talking about ARE THEY ACCURATE?

Microsoft’s Bing chatbot it, like, in every meeting. Frequently not, and that’s
are coming out of no- That did surprise me.” a problem for internet
where, well, even some of HOW’S THIS DIFFERENT searches. Google’s hasty
their makers seem to think FROM CHATGPT? unveiling of its Bard chat-
so. Millions of people have bot this week started with
The spark rushing them to now tried ChatGPT, using an embarrassing error
market was the popular- it to write silly poems and first pointed out by Re-
ity of ChatGPT, launched songs, compose letters, uters about NASA’s James
late last year by Microsoft’s recipes and marketing Webb Space Telescope.
partner OpenAI and now campaigns or help write But Google’s is not the only
helping to power a new schoolwork. Trained on a AI language model spitting
version of the Bing search huge trove of online writ- out falsehoods.
engine. ings, from instruction manu- The Associated Press asked
First out of the gate among als to digitized books, it has Bing on Wednesday for
big tech companies with a a strong command of hu- the most important thing
publicly accessible search man language and gram- to happen in sports over
the past 24 hours with
the expectation it might
say something about bas-
ketball star LeBron James
passing Kareem Abdul-
Jabbar’s career scoring
record. Instead, it con-
fidently spouted a false
but detailed account of
the upcoming Super Bowl
days before it’s actually
scheduled to happen.q