This week's update to Microsoft's Bing Chat AI chatbot also includes some improvements to the backend that should cut down on latency spikes when users receive certain chat answers.
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The new update should cut down on the number of times Bing Chat won't continue a conversation by over three times, which should be a great help to the users of Microsoft's chatbot AI
Microsoft exec Mikhail Parakhin was asked on Twitter if third-party plugin support for Bing Chat could be added like there is now for ChatGPT, and his response was simply, "Stay tuned."
Microsoft has once again talked about the new Bing Chat Tone selector toggles, along with some fixes when using the chatbot in the Edge Dev channel browser for Windows and even more.
The new "smooth scrolling" feature in Bing Chat should make reading and keeping track of messages from the chatbot much easier for its users as it continues its public beta testing.
The opening of ChatGPT's APIs by its creators at OpenAI will allow any developer to use its chatbot AI in its apps and products, and could help fund OpenAI's future software developments.
The latest version of Microsoft's Bing Chat AI bot will also reportedly reduce the number of times the chatbot will refuse to answer a question from the user for no real reason.
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As promised, Microsoft has boosted the amount of daily chat turns in the new Bing Chat to 100, after previously limiting those turns to 50 a day. Also SERP queries don't count anymore as chat turns.
The cost of putting in chatbot AIs to provide answers to questions could cost as much as 10 times the normal price of a search for Google and Microsoft, but there may be ways to cut that price down.