The Bing chatbot has a celebrity mode to talk to Taylor Swift, Harry Potter or Gandalf

MADRID, March 6 (Portaltic/EP) –

He Bing search engine ‘chatbot’ hides a celebrity mode that makes the artificial intelligence (AI) respond to the user in the way the famous person would, as if they were interviewing him.

The new Bing with AI has a number of modes that allow transform the personality of the ‘chatbot’ to interact with the user as if he were an assistant, play with him or help him solve a personal problem.

The usual one, and established by default, is the search mode, but through a command headed by the hash symbol (#), activate the selection of the chat mode, and choose Sydney, Assistant or Friend.

As detailed in Bleeping Computer, these modes are experimental. However, one more list has been added, so that the user can select the celebrity mode.

On this occasion, what it does is simulate that the user is talking to a famous person. This virtual version will respond to questions about your life, your career and your hobbies that they be done to him, and he will do it, moreover, in the style in which the real person would do it.

According to the aforementioned medium, this mode currently only admits a small number of celebrities, among which are Elon Musk, Tom Cruise, Taylor Swift, Dwayne Johnson, Beyoncé and Oprah Winfrey. But you can also take on the personality of fictional characters like Harry Potter, Batman, Elsa, Yoda, Gandalf or Katniss Everdeen.

On the other hand, Microsoft has also introduced two other ways that allow you to profile the personality of the search engine, so that offer more creative or more precise answers.