Microsoft expects 3 language model updates for Bing Chat per year

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Published onMay 9, 2023

published onMay 9, 2023

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Last week, Microsoftshipped Bing Chat to open previewfor everyone to try out. However, you’ll still need a Microsoft Account to access the AI chatbot’s capabilities.

Of course, the company continues topush updates as well as improvements to Bing Chatever so often in a bid to enhance its user experience, with the latest update adding chat saving support. But a concerned user reached out to Microsoft’s CEO of Advertising and Web Services, Mikhail Parakhinon Twitterseeking to understandhow and when the company updates the chatbot’s models.

@MParakhinwould it be possible to share more about when/how the underlying models are updated as opposed to the prompt (and maybe even what was changed and the expected outcome)? It would be great to know when to reevaluate base model capabilities like reasoning/creativity/etc.

— Ryan Tremblay (@zaptrem)May 8, 2023

Mikhail disclosed that the company takes several months to train Bing Chat’s models. As such, users are highly likely to see the models updated at least three times a year. “Models themselves it takes months to train, so, outside of some small RLHF tuning runs, you should expect models to be updated maybe 3 times a year or so,” says Mikhail.

After shipping Bing Chat to open preview, Microsoft also promised that it is working closely with OpenAI tobring third-party plugin supportto the chatbot. In turn, this will allow developers to create plug-ins for Bing Chat.

viaSE Roundtable

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