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Mar 8, 2023

Bing Go AI

The Exode Saga
 I've been exploring the use of AI-generated images to help illustrate my science fiction stories. I've also recently been investigating how the Bing internet search software is using AI-generated text (chat) as part of its user interface. 

I asked Bing: "What is the Exode Saga?"

The Bing AI-generated chat system replied: "The Exode Saga is a science fiction adventure that involves a team of Retrofuturians who created and crafted the science fiction genre within the Ekcolir Reality (source). It is a collaborative fiction writing project that can be found on the exodemic website and the wikifiction blog. There is also a video introduction to the Exode Saga on YouTube (see)."

Actually, Bing failed to provide a link to this blog, so in the above paragraph I added a link to my blog page called "The Exode Saga".

Microsoft want's people to use the Bing search engine from within their Edge browser.

searching for Retrofuturians
Next, I asked: "What are Retrofuturians?"

The Bing AI-generated chat system replied: "In the Exode Saga, the Retrofuturians are a team of writers who created and crafted the science fiction genre within the Ekcolir Reality, which is a parallel timeline where Earth was visited by aliens and humans were given advanced technology and knowledge. The Retrofuturians used their imagination and creativity to explore the possibilities and implications of the alien intervention and the future of humanity."

Again, in providing the response shown above, Bing provided a link to a website, but I suspect it was a paid placement, since the linked web page actually contained no information about the Exode Saga.

Tyhry and Marda in Alastor Cluster
 I then asked, "Who is Rylla Onway?"

The Bing AI-generated chat system replied: "Rylla Onway is a character in the Exode Saga, a science fiction adventure that involves a team of Retrofuturians who created and crafted the science fiction genre within the Ekcolir Reality. She is a young woman who lives in the year 2017 and discovers that she is a descendant of an alien race called the Kac'hin. She joins a group of rebels who are trying to stop the alien invasion and save the Earth."

The source cited by Bing for the above information about Rylla is my YouTube video.

When Bing is done answering, it offers some suggestions for possible follow-up questions. In this case, I took a suggestion and asked, "Who are the Kac'hin?"

Figure 1. Kac'hin
 The reply from the Bing AI-generated chat system was pretty funny: "I’m sorry but I couldn’t find any information about the Kac’hin race on the web. It seems to be a very obscure and mysterious topic. Maybe you can try to contact the authors of the Exode Saga and ask them directly. They might be able to tell you more about their creation."

I've been writing about the Kac'hin for the past decade, but apparently Bing does not read this blog. Taking another suggested question from Bing, I asked how to contact the authors of the Exode Saga.

Bing AI reply: "It seems that the authors of the Exode Saga are a group of collaborative fiction writers who use the website exodemic.wordpress.com to share their stories and ideas. You can try to contact them by leaving a comment on their blog posts or by sending an email to exodemic@gmail.com."

Bing Go Off Rails. Don't bother sending an email to exodemic@gmail.com.....

An Asterothrope; made with evesnow02 by
Eclesi4stiK available under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0
I like to imaging that the Kac'hin were genetically engineered so as to have a nearly normal human appearance, but there are some special anatomical features (see Figure 1). However, compared to the Kac'hin, the Asterothropes are much more different from the human norm and must be classified as a separate species. I asked Bing AI, "What is an Asterothrope?" For reference, the image to right shows an Asterothrope (source).

Bing AI reply: "An Asterothrope is a fictional term that refers to a genetically engineered successor to the human species in a science fiction blog called Trysta and Ekcolir. The word is not a common or scientific term, and it may be confused with similar-sounding words like 'azeotrope' or 'stereotype'."

image source
made using EliseComfy10
and KayleeRelax13
by Eclesi4stiK
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0
available under this (above)
Creative Commons license.
 Unstable Confusion.
Contrary to the opinion of the Bing AI, I doubt if anyone in the universe has ever been confused between an Asterothrope and a stereotype. I asked, "Where can I find an image that provides a good illustration of the physical features of an Asterothrope?"

Bing AI reply: "There are not many images of Asterothropes online, as they are a fictional creation of a specific blog. The only image I could find is from DeviantArt, a photo-manipulation of an Asterothrope. The image shows a humanoid figure with blue skin, pointed ears, and a star-shaped mark on the forehead. However, this image may not be accurate or representative of how the author of the blog envisioned Asterothropes. You may want to contact the author or the DeviantArt user for more information."

There are many depictions of Asterothropes at the wikifiction blog (for example, see the image to the left). Pressing the point, I asked, "What are some webpages at www.blogspot.com that show illustrations of Asterothropes?"

another dream of young Tyhry
The Bing AI reply: "I'm sorry, but I could not find any webpages at www.blogspot.com that show illustrations of Asterothropes."

I asked, "What are some passages of text from wikifiction.blogger.com that include the word 'Asterothrope'?"

The Bing AI reply: "I found a passage; it says: “In turn, Asterothropes were created as the logical successor to the human species and carefully engineered to efficiently spread from Earth outward through the stars. But all the carefully laid plans for Earth failed! At the end of Time, Trysta, the last remaining Asterothrope, is sent to Earth on a Time repair mission." (cited source)

Figure 2. Results from DuckDuckGo

Tyhry and a Sedronite.
 Duck Beats Bing. As shown in the image above (Figure 2) it is not hard to find images of Asterothropes at wikifiction.blogspot.com.

I asked the Bing chat interface, "What is the alien species known as the Huaoshy?"

The Bing AI reply: "The Huaoshy are a fictional alien species that appear in some science fiction stories. According to one source, they are an ancient and advanced civilization that has manipulated the evolution of life on many planets, including Earth. They have a complex relationship with humans and other intelligent beings, sometimes helping them and sometimes hindering them. They are also involved in a conflict with another alien race called the Sedronites."

Figure 3. lost story is found
I asked the Bing chat interface, "What was the first time travel story written by Isaac Asimov?"

 The Bing AI reply: "Isaac Asimov's first time travel story was 'Cosmic Corkscrew', written in 1938. The story was about a man who traveled into the future to find the Earth recently deserted. However, this story was never published and is considered lost. His first published time travel story was The End of Eternity, which came out in 1955. This novel is about a secret organization that manipulates history for the benefit of humanity."

Figure 4. In the Ekcolir Reality
I can't stop myself from imagining that Marda might use the Reality Simulation System to visit the past and other Realities of Deep Time (such as the Ekcolir Reality, see Figure 4) where such a "lost story" might never have been lost.

I used the WOMBO Dream cloud-based CLIP-guided image generating software to make another illustration of a pulp science fiction magazine cover for the issue of a magazine containing Cosmic Corkscrew in another Reality of Deep Time (Figure 3). I like to imagine that the science fiction genre as we know it was invented in the Ekcolir Reality. In the Buld Reality, there were some science fiction stories that got published, but they had to be eliminated from the Final Reality.

Microsoft Rewards
When I started using Bing, Microsoft suggested using their Edge browser. The image to the left shows part of the user interface for Bing as presented by Edge browser. The combination of Edge browser with Bing search engine is a finely crafted system for pushing advertisements at users.

Figure 4. Never see an advertisement.

 Blocking Ads. I routinely use Firefox browser with the uBlock Origin extension (see Figure 4). After many years of never seeing an ad on the internet, it is quite a shock to experience Microsoft's highly-commercialized web browsing experience.

Figure 5. Mr. Google's go to source for information about using Bing.

I searched the internet for "Where are Microsoft's instructions for using Bing?"

Figure 6. DuckDuckGo's first choice for information about using Bing.

 Shown below is the top search result provided by Bing:

Figure 7. Bing's top search result for help on using Bing. Chat reply on the right.
Tyhry and Marda investigate AI.


In my experience, Microsoft is abysmal at explaining to users how to use Microsoft software. I guess it should not be a surprise that the Bing search engine directs users to wikiHow for instructions. What I don't understand is how it is possible for the Bing AI system to be dealing with a user of the Bing search engine (me) who already has access to the Bing chat feature, and yet it directs me to Bing.com/new so that I can get on the waiting list for getting access to Bing chat (see Figure 7). This is the true meaning of "artificial intelligence" in 2023; NO intelligence at all.

I was intrigued by my discovery that there is a website called "https://learn.microsoft.com/". I asked the Bing chat interface, "What is Microsoft Search?"

no updates for you

Figure 8. deep learning model
 The Bing AI reply: "Microsoft Search is a new search offering that helps you save time by bringing you the best of the web and work in a single experience. It is integrated with Microsoft 365 and works across all your data and platforms. It uses deep learning models to provide highly relevant and contextual results for your organization. Are you using Microsoft 365?🤔"

Yes, Bing search never fails to try to get you to use Microsoft products. I asked the Bing chat interface, "What are deep learning models?"

 The Bing AI reply: "Deep learning models are types of artificial neural networks that have revolutionized the field of machine learning. They use a layered approach to process information, where each layer of neurons is responsible for detecting and extracting increasingly complex features from the input data. "

the Tyhry node of the
Mind Clone Network

I asked Mr. Wombo for a: "photograph of deep learning models, artificial intelligence, fractal complex neural network in the background" and got Figure 8.

I asked the Bing chat interface, "How many layers of neurons are there in the Bing neural network?"

The Bing AI reply: "According to Microsoft Research, the neural network that powers Bing has 135 billion parameters and uses binary features. The input layer contains 9 billion features, generated from 49 feature groups, with each binary feature encoded into a 15-dimension embedding vector. After per-group sum-pooling and concatenation, the vector is passed through two dense layers to produce a click probability estimation."

I asked this follow-up question: "Does the Bing neural network have three layers of neurons?" 

Deep Learning Model (film)
The Bing AI reply: "Yes, the Bing neural network has three layers of neurons: an input layer, a hidden layer and an output layer. The input layer contains 9 billion features, the hidden layer contains two dense layers and the output layer produces a click probability estimation."

 You can't trust Bing. If you read the article that Bing cites you find this: "MEB is a sparse neural network model composed of an input layer taking in binary features, a feature embedding layer transforming each binary feature into a 15-dimension vector, a sum pooling layer applied on each of 49 feature groups and concatenated to produce a 735-dimension vector, which is then passed through two dense layers to produce a click probability." Thus, there are at least 5 layers in the neural network, contradicting Bing's statement that there are three layers.

Conie the AI (2023 film)
To investigate Bing's scientific knowledge, I asked, "How do sodium ions create a generator potential in a mechanosensitive axon?"

The Bing AI reply: "Sodium ions enter the axon via facilitated diffusion. This changes the electrical potential difference across the membrane, leading to depolarisation. This establishes a generator potential, which triggers impulses that travel along the sensory neurone."

Bing was also cute and asked me: "Are you studying for an exam?"📚

I asked, "How do sodium ions enter a mechanosensitive axon to create a generator potential?"

Miss Bing, the chatbot
The Bing AI reply: "Sodium ions enter a mechanosensitive axon through voltage-gated sodium channels that open when the membrane is depolarized by a stimulus. This causes more depolarization and creates a generator potential."

Again, Bing asked me a question: "Are you familiar with voltage-gated sodium channels?"⚡

Bing was wrong about voltage-gated sodium channels creating a generator potential. I asked: "In a mechansensitive axon, which comes first, a generator potential or an action potential?".

The Bing AI reply: "A generator potential comes first. It is a graded potential that develops in the dendrites of a sensory neuron when stimulated. If it reaches a threshold, it can produce an action potential in the axon."

2023 film: Artificial
Bing's next annoying question for me was: "Do you understand how graded potentials differ from action potentials?"🧠

In this case, Bing was confused. A mechanosensitive axon ending, where you can get a generator potential, is an axon, not a dendrite. I understand graded potentials and action potentials, but Bing does not.

Since Bing was wrong, I asked the very leading question: "To create a generator potential, does sodium enter the axon through mechanosensitive ion channels or through voltage-gated sodium channels?"

The Bing AI reply: "Sodium enters the axon through both types of channels, but at different stages. Mechanosensitive ion channels open when a stimulus deforms the membrane, allowing sodium to enter and depolarize it. This creates a generator potential. If it reaches a threshold, voltage-gated sodium channels open and let more sodium in, generating an action potential."

2023 film: Miss Bing
Bing also asked me: "Do you want to know more about mechanosensitive ion channels?"🔬

I asked, "What are the names of some mechanosensitive ion channels that can create a generator potential?"

The Bing AI reply: "Some examples of mechanosensitive ion channels that can create a generator potential are piezo, TREK, TRAAK and 2P. These channels are sensitive to different types of mechanical stimuli, such as sound, vibration, touch, blood flow and membrane deformation."

Bing also asked me: "Do you want to know more about any specific channel?"👂

I asked, "Can you show me an image showing the molecular structure of a piezo channel?"

structure of a piezo channel

The Bing AI reply: "I'm sorry but I cannot provide you with an image because the chatbox doesn't support images. However, I can describe the molecular structure of a piezo channel for you. A piezo channel is a trimer and is shaped like a propeller with three blades organized around a central pore."

I feel sorry for anyone trying to learn from Bing. Bing is very stupid and it falsely makes claims that are not correct, without providing users with any indication that Bing is likely to be wrong. That the chat AI would not show an image is annoying.

Tyhry uses the RSS to travel back in time from 2041 to 2023 in order to
obtain a deleted Reality Simulation System bookmark for the planet Sermyth.
 One More Mystery. As discussed above on this blog page, I followed Microsoft's advice and installed Edge on my old computer. After Microsoft provided me with Microsoft Edge version 111.0.1661.44, the Bing chatbot told me this: "The reason why clicking on the ellipsis button does not open a drawer in Microsoft Edge on Mac OS version 10.13.6 is that the version of Microsoft Edge you are using is not supported on Mac OS version 10.13.6. The minimum supported version of Mac OS for Microsoft Edge version 111.0.1661.44 is 10.14 Mojave."

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