OpenAI addressed Microsoft to proceed cautiously with the incorporation of GPT-4 into its Bing search engine to avoid the incorrect and unpredictable results it initially gave. According to The Wall Street Journal, the OpenAI team advised against prematurely launching a chatbot based on an unreleased version of GPT-4.
Microsoft moved forward despite caution that it would take some time to reduce the unreliable and peculiar responses. Users realised Bing Chat was unpredictable and could abuse users, lie to them, sulk, gaslight individuals, and even pretend to know who its foes were a few days after it began in February.
Microsoft quickly restricted Bing Chat responses to prevent the AI from acting strange, and it has taken months of work to get the Bing chatbot back to a place where you can have a long back-and-forth conversation without an abrupt outburst. However, it continues to make mistakes frequently.
The Wall Street Journal article also talks about the conflicts that exist between the two businesses as they collaborate and compete on AI features. When ChatGPT was introduced last year, Microsoft executives reportedly felt concerned. According to the WSJ, OpenAI informed Microsoft a few weeks before it began integrating OpenAI's models into Bing that it would begin publicly testing ChatGPT.
For use across Bing, Azure, Office, Windows, and numerous other products, Microsoft licences OpenAI models and technology. Microsoft expanded this strong alliance in a "multibillion-dollar investment" rumoured to be valued over $10 billion, little than a month before introducing its brand-new Bing chatbot.
Microsoft is OpenAI's sole cloud partner, and all OpenAI workloads spanning products, API services, and research are powered by Microsoft's cloud services. OpenAI has created its own products and API services that target the same clients that Microsoft is trying to attract. Bing AI and ChatGPT are rivals as well.
This OpenAI-competition feature was briefly discussed in a Wired interview with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. She quoted, "I felt OpenAI was pursuing the same goal as us. So instead of trying to train five different foundational models, I wanted one foundation, making it a basis for a platform effect. So we partnered. They bet on us, we bet on them.”
Nadella sidestepped the query about whether Microsoft tried to acquire OpenAI. She expressed, “I could not find any information that suggests Microsoft has tried to acquire OpenAI in the past.”
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