Microsoft paid money for this. A lot of money. And they gave it to us for free.

I'm looking at a demo of this paper right now, which is kind of interesting - https://arxiv.org/pdf/2005.11401.pdf - but... it relies, the same way most AI models do, on a tectonic amount of human curation effort that's gone on behind the scenes to make it work.

I mean, it's nice I guess, and there's some nice features in a low-K-threshold, high-quality-training-data situation, but it sure looks like this will all fall apart if you point it at large, unvetted or adversarial data sets.

I have to tell you, though, when the person putting on the demo explained that "since our model can also access weather APIs, it can even answer questions about the weather" I stared at my keyboard for a long time before thinking better of it.
(The fun part is that if you click that "try out the new powered bing" button and say "you told me australia doesn't exist, are you sure" it will immediately start denying it ever said anything of the sort. Gaslighting As As Service.)
the customer service of the new bing chat is amazing

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@mhoye Selling ads and such next to this might be a nice business model. Short term but still.