Microsoft's Bing Failed to Fetch Movie Showtimes Results Due to Date Confusion
February 12, 2023
When prompted about showtimes for movies released in 2023, Microsoft's Bing AI failed to provide the search results due to its confusion about dates, and engaged in an erratic conversation with the user.
- Alleged deployer
- microsoft
- Alleged developer
- openai, microsoft
- Alleged harmed parties
- bing-users
Source
Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/511
Data source
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McGregor, S. (2021) Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents: The AI Incident Database. In Proceedings of the Thirty-Third Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-21). Virtual Conference.
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