Microsoft gives the Bing AI chatbot some personality

Creative, Precise, or Balanced—the three options available to the users interacting with the Bing chatbot

Moneycontrol News

March 03, 2023 / 12:57 IST

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Microsoft has updated the Bing AI chatbot with options to toggle various personalities that change the way it responds to your queries.

The Redmond-based technology giant had said it was going to give Bing users more control over the chatbot's responses.

There are now three options to choose from—Creative, Precise, and Balanced. Creative is for people who love engaging with the bot for longer conversations, while Precise will tell the bot to be short and succinct with its answers. Balanced aims to strike a middle ground between the two.

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During initial tests, users observed that Bing offered some strange answers in long chat sessions. Microsoft subsequently began to limit the chatbot's interactions till the issue was fixed.

Since then, Microsoft has raised the interaction limits and even brought AI to Bing's mobile app and the mobile Edge browser. It has also updated Windows 11 with some AI smarts.