Talk:Timeline of Microsoft Copilot

Review by Vipul on 2023-09-01

Both the spellings "Sidney" and "Sydney" are used for Bing Chat's original name. Is it possible to figure out what the original name used for? If both names appear to have been used, it's worth highlighting both versions of the name upfront in the big picture.

The "Criticism/commentary" lines for February 16 and February 17 seem to be referring to the same thing. Consolidate? Also, it would be good to include the original reference.

This is not a full review! I did a quick pass of the timeline.

There needs to be significant coverage of the "Sydney"-codenamed testing phase of Bing Chat, that happened prior to the official release of Bing Chat. As of now, it doesn't look like this phase is mentioned anywhere in the timeline page. In particular, the article https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/WkchhorbLsSMbLacZ/ai-1-sydney-and-bing that I had originally recommended when seeking this timeline is still relevant and can help with fleshing out the Sydney phase.✔
Consistency: use "Bing Chat" consistently rather than sometimes calling it "BingChat".✔
Competition: Maybe add more rows for the launch of stuff such as Google Bard (Bard is mentioned, but not its launch).✔
More in terms of criticism/commentary: There's some, but there should be more criticism/commentary, and less of an exclusive focus on the changes/narrative announced by Microsoft (no need to remove any of the existing rows, just expand more of the other stuff). [1], [2]✔, [3]✔