Microsoft increases limits on chat sessions with Bing AI

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Taking 'turns'

In response, Microsoft limited the interaction with the bot to five turns per chat and a total of 50 turns per day.

The company describes a turn as a full query and response between the user and the AI.

When a user hits the limit, Bing prompts them to change the topic. Microsoft has increased the limits to six turns per chat and 60 turns a day.

Earlier, Microsoft also said long conversations on a topic tended to confuse the AI model, resulting in unwanted responses. It also instructed users to scrub context history each time they started a new chat, giving users a tool to do so.

Microsoft said its goal is to hit 100 turns in a day.

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"These long and intricate chat sessions are not something we would typically find with internal testing," Microsoft wrote in a blog post.

"In fact, the very reason we are testing the new Bing in the open with a limited set of preview testers is precisely to find these atypical use cases from which we can learn and improve the product."

The Redmond, US-based technology giant said it will begin testing an additional option soon that will let users "choose the tone of the Chat from more Precise – which will focus on shorter, more search focused answers – to Balanced, to more Creative – which gives you longer and more chatty answers".