I haven't tried BingChat yet, but I guess I'm not surprised at your
(Jochen) experience and in particular the recapitulation of the Clippy
experience.
This is why *I* didn't double down on my (already zero) stock
investments in Microsoft <grin>... even if OpenAI (now heavily owned
by MS?) is in the lead by many measures, I don't have a lot of
confidence that MS will deliver it to the masses in nearly as clever of
a way as they might or someone else will.
Maybe technological prowess is all that matters if we really are deep
into the power-band of the Kurzweilian Singularity, but if in fact we
are still in the "clutch slipping to convert raw power to torque" phase,
then human engagement is a bit more critical/central. I find Google
on-average does a hugely better job than MS and Apple slam-dunks them
both in this mode.
"yet another" player might swoop in and scoop them all? Amazon is an
obvious poised contender and already has a huge piece of the market's
attention with Alexa on one hand and with the "shopping" domain on the
other. There are probably other (non) obvious contenders poised to
kick the chair-legs out of the modern "digital robber barons"?
MuskCorp (Tesla/SpaceX/Neuralink/Boring/Twitter???) seems like another
one to watch out for... the list probably is open ended (uncountable
but not in the set theoretic sense).
I've dorked quite a bit with GPT4 now and am equally impressed and
depressed by it. I won't bore the room with my myriad experiences to
date, but suffice it to say that I'm not looking over my shoulder to
make sure that the AI Overlord is about to grind me under it's digital
bootheel, although I *do* suspect that my life and those who are
yet-more-engaged in societies demands and opportuities will find the
world a bit askew if not totally topsy-turvey within a very few years or
very many months. The old phrase "Internet-time" (circa 2000?) has a
whole new scale perhaps?
I've read that Bing Chat is now available for everyone in this blog post..
https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2023/03/14/Binging
..and it really seems to be available now for everyone. I have tried
it and it feels horrible though. The overall experience is totally
different from ChatGPT. Bing Chat is stubborn and repetitive. Do you
remember Clippy the office assistant? Bing Chat is like Clippy: it is
simply annoying. And if you say something that it doesn't like it
aborts the conversation abruptly. Microsoft took something valuable
and ruined it.
-J.
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