“You have to deploy it to a million people before you discover some of the things that it can do”
Dario Amodei, interviewed for the story
Early in-the-field exchanges with the Bing bot are showing some erratic or wrong answers, raising questions about premature public availability. Wide-scale introductions of AI systems known as large language models (LLMs) have accelerated in recent weeks, with notable giants in the mix including Microsoft, which owns Bing, and Google, which announced its own soon-to-come LLM, Bard.
The new Bing is currently limited to special access users for testing and reviewing. Some interviewed by THE WASHINGTON POST say the results can be alarming, while others suggest this is a natural stage in the evolution of the new technology.