Microsoft’s Bing chatbot just got some big improvements in the latest update for the AI, including important moves to make it less prone to freezing up and not responding – as well as making it smarter with maths and when dealing with news queries.
As Microsoft explains in a blog post, the Bing AI will now suffer fewer instances when it just brings a conversation session to an abrupt (and unfriendly) end. This pertains to situations that occur with some messages that make Bing just close the chat, saying something like it’s time to change the topic, or that it prefers not to continue the conversation.
