
The result is well-documented: a barrage of "hallucinations" that greatly undermined the tech's usefulness as a search assistant and perception in the public eye.Īnd that still applies, even after Microsoft put strict limits on conversation lengths in February, effectively " lobotomizing" the infamously free-spirited AI. Last fall, as Microsoft was rushing to stuff AI tech into its Bing search engine, its partner OpenAI warned the tech giant about the dangers of integrating its GPT-4 large language model (LLM) early without training it more, the Wall Street Journal reports.ĭespite OpenAI cautioning Microsoft that jumping the gun and integrating an unreleased version of the LLM could lead to lies and nonsense responses, Microsoft went ahead and launched the tech anyway in early February.
