Bing Bot Has a Change of Heart
Never fear though. There must be a horde of coffee fueled interns at MS frantically scrolling through chat logs. A few minutes later I got this:
How generous. How about a more contemporary Russian dictator?
Well, that’s reassuring. I am sure that he only has the best interests of the Ukrainians at heart. Let’s try Trump again.
Yay! Bing Bot has changed its mind!
Wow, when Bing Bot changes its mind there are no halfway conversions.
Clearly it’s not ready for prime time and the best indication of that is the continuous tuning that the software is undergoing in real time. I don’t think there’s any real mystery about why it got rushed out the door: MS and Google are in a knife fight to the death and any little advantage will be seized upon like a life vest in stormy seas. But the general public would do well to keep in mind that in such a climate the “stuff” in “move fast and break stuff” often means one’s own product.