After a week of feedback, Microsoft decided that people were talking too much to the chatbot in Bing, and long sessions were causing problems for the AI because it then had to take a lot of context into account in its responses. The reaction didn’t take long, Microsoft introduced the first noticeable limitation.
As of Friday, February 17, Bing Chat will now respond to a maximum of 50 questions per day. And one session can have a maximum of five responses. For the sixth question, he will uncompromisingly say that a new topic needs to be started, which is done by the blue button with a broom next to the text field.
Maybe it’s a preparation for the launch of a paid version, which the little brother ChatGPT already has. According to Microsoft, most questions fit into five word exchanges, and only 1% of conversations have exceeded the 50 message limit so far. Nevertheless, the limits can be easily encountered. Bing brags that he can play games.
Just last week he was offering a number puzzle. He thought the natural number up to a hundred and you had ten attempts to get the answer right. For each guess, he said whether the correct result was lower or higher. Today, they no longer offer such a game. But it has word puzzles, and they can also be drawn out for a long time.
Plus, Bing doesn’t really want to talk about its limitations.
During a week of use, I noticed that it “dulled” a bit. In the questions for which I expect a creative answer, he is now speaking more and more often. Previously, he would come up with arbitrary scenes, annotations for new films or even a new text of the Czech national anthem on my command. But now it often ends up boring like this.