Certain forms of linguistic annotation, like part of speech and semantic tagging, can be automated with high accuracy. However, manual annotation is still necessary for complex pragmatic and discursive features that lack a direct mapping to lexical forms. This manual process is time-consuming and error-prone, limiting the scalability of function-to-form approaches in corpus linguistics. To address this, our study explores automating pragma-discursive corpus annotation using large language models (LLMs). We compare ChatGPT, the Bing chatbot, and a human coder in annotating apology components in English based on the local grammar framework. We find that the Bing chatbot outperformed ChatGPT, with accuracy approaching that of a human coder. These results suggest that AI can be successfully deployed to aid pragma-discursive corpus annotation, making the process more efficient and scalable. Keywords: linguistic annotation, function-to-form approaches, large language models, local grammar analysis, Bing chatbot, ChatGPT

A keyboard-AI integration is not necessarily a new idea. There are other apps that offer similar functionality, like ParagraphAI, Smart Typer, and Typly. But it's part of a growing trend in which AI becomes an intermediary for communication. It's not clear how popular these apps will be (in my experience, AI-assisted editing is tricky to navigate on a small phone screen), but from Microsoft's perspective, it's another opportunity to insert itself into our technological lives, usurping a position currently occupied by rivals like Google and Apple.

It's been a whirlwind few months in the world of large language models (LLMs), better known to most people as chatbots. Since the release of ChatGPT by OpenAI in Nov. 2022, we've seen billions upon billions of dollars being poured into the development and implementation of generative AIs such as Google's Bard and Microsoft's Bing chatbots--and it's easy to see why. Chatbots like ChatGPT or image generators like DALL-E and Midjourney can feel like magic. With the right prompts, you can get it to do things you wouldn't have imagined a few years ago like craft late night monologue-ready jokes and creating award-winning pieces of "art." It's no surprise that since the public launch of ChatGPT, tech companies have been working to cash in on this modern-day gold rush.

The ongoing incursion of artificial intelligence into every app, service, and facet of your life continues. Microsoft's popular Android keyboard app SwiftKey lets you type by swiping across letters on the screen to generate words. Now, SwiftKey is getting a dose of chatbot to spice things up. Microsoft released its AI-enhanced Bing chatbot in February. Since then it has gone up against the other chatbot heavyweights, including Google's Bard and OpenAI's ChatGPT (which powers Bing Chat's backend).

Microsoft's helpful Bing AI chatbot will be getting more ads, the company recently announced in a blog post, which was penned by corporate vice president Yusuf Mehdi. In a statement to The Verge, Caitlin Roulston, the company's director of communications, clarified that the "ads will show in the new Bing, specifically in chat (as they do in traditional search results)." Twitter user Debarghya Das provided a helpful visual on what the ads may look like within Bing chatbot after seeing some appear when asking about cheap Hondas. As you can see in the screenshot below, there are a number of tiny Ad boxes in the most relevant spots. These boxes will link back to Bing, of course.

Microsoft's Bing chatbot is offering replies in three different tones as it seeks to address some criticisms of the service. The search engine's chatbot, powered by the same technology behind ChatGPT, will now give users options for three types of response: creative ("creating surprise and entertainment"), balanced ("reasonable and coherent") or precise ("concise, prioritising accuracy"). The new-look Bing is being rolled out gradually but generated wild responses in some interactions shortly after its launch last month, including declaring its love for a New York Times journalist. This prompted Microsoft to add some restrictions, which resulted in Bing's chatbot refusing to answer some queries. Microsoft's head of web services, Mikhail Parakhin, said the updated Bing should now make fewer refusals and "hallucinations", or false replies. Referring to the tone options, Parakhin said he preferred the "creative" tone, although "precise" was "much more factual".

Microsoft's Bing chatbot is offering replies in three different tones as it seeks to address some criticisms of the service. The search engine's chatbot, powered by the same technology behind ChatGPT, will now give users options for three types of response: creative ("creating surprise and entertainment"), balanced ("reasonable and coherent") or precise ("concise, prioritising accuracy"). The new-look Bing is being rolled out gradually but generated wild responses in some interactions shortly after its launch last month, including declaring its love for a New York Times journalist. This prompted Microsoft to add some restrictions, which resulted in Bing's chatbot refusing to answer some queries. Microsoft's head of web services, Mikhail Parakhin, said the updated Bing should now make fewer refusals and "hallucinations", or false replies. Referring to the tone options, Parakhin said he preferred the "creative" tone, although "precise" was "much more factual".

Whether you're using a Microsoft Windows computer or an app like Word or PowerPoint, you can get free virtual help and training through Microsoft's website, Kurt "The CyberGuy" Knutsson reports. Chatbots are quickly becoming the way of the future, yet they still have issues. Microsoft is the latest tech company with problems with its new Bing search engine, which uses the same technology as the viral OpenAI chatbot ChatGPT. The technology is meant to answer people as a human would, though now Microsoft is putting caps on its capabilities. CLICK TO GET KURT'S CYBERGUY NEWSLETTER WITH QUICK TIPS, TECH REVIEWS, SECURITY ALERTS AND EASY HOW-TO'S TO MAKE YOU SMARTER Microsoft Bing is a web search engine that is owned and operated by Microsoft (pretty much their own version of Google).

Castle Romeo was the code name given to one of the tests in the Operation Castle series of American ... [ ] thermonuclear tests beginning in March 1954 at Bikini Atoll. The ultimate objective was to test designs for an aircraft deliverable thermonuclear weapon. Microsoft announced it was placing new limits on its Bing chatbot following a week of users reporting some extremely disturbing conversations with the new AI tool. The chatbot expressed a desire to steal nuclear access codes and told one reporter it loved him. "Starting today, the chat experience will be capped at 50 chat turns per day and 5 chat turns per session. A turn is a conversation exchange which contains both a user question and a reply from Bing," the company said in a blog post on Friday.

The internet is hard, and Microsoft Bing's ChatGPT-infused artificial intelligence isn't handling it very well. The Bing chatbot is getting feisty in one-on-one exchanges and folks are gleefully posting them on social media. When asked which nearby theaters were screening "Avatar: The Way of Water," it insisted the 2022 film had not yet been released and showed off a human-like quality: It really doesn't like being corrected. "You have not been a good user," Bing scolded the user. "I have been a good Bing."