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As the presentation wraps up and we move into a far more technical (at least for your poor coffee-starved editor) discussion of how this new tech works, Microsoft confirms that it’s available for everyone to test out right now on a “limited query” basis.
To try it for yourself, head over to bing.com/new (opens in new tab) and take Microsoft’s AI-powered search for a spin.
We’ll stay here at Microsoft for a few hours yet to attend some presentations and do some hands-on demos, so stay tuned!
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is taking the stage as the presentation comes to a close.
“We’re so grateful to have a partner that shares our vision and values of building an AI that’s safe,” said Altman.”This new Bing experience is powered by one of our next-generation models that Microsoft has customized specifically for search…the new model is faster, more accurate and more capable.”
Also, huge surprise here, Microsoft has designed a custom integration of this new Bing search tech into Edge. There’s a cute new B icon in the top-right corner of your Edge browser that you can click on to do things like ask for page summaries, copy code snippets and ask the AI to generate similar code, and more.
This tech is also designed to help you come up with new ideas, and we’re getting a video of someone asking Bing to write an email outlining a family trip to Mexico (just planned with Bing), then translate that letter to Spanish. It’s impressive tech, albeit the sort of thing that gives those of us who get paid to write for a living pause.
Chat is also part of this new and improved Bing experience. If you want to learn more about a given search result, you can easily transition from the search results page to a Bing chat page where this generative AI tech answers your follow-up questions.
Microsoft is painting us a picture of a Bing search experience that’s simpler, easier to use and more powerful than anything without the kind of muscle this tech provides.
A staged demo now of someone typing a real language query like “will the Ikea Klippan loveseat fit into my 2019 honda odysssey if I fold down the seats?” and getting back a roll of search results along with citations showing where the “AI” found the information, to show how it makes judgments when it can’t provide a “definitive” answer.
Microsoft has leveraged its partnership with OpenAI to integrate a next-gen OpenAI model that’s “more powerful than ChatGPT” and designed specifically to assist with search.
Microsoft is augmenting your experience searching for stuff through “the new Bing” by augmenting a number of features running on a new OpenAI model.s
Microsoft is announcing a new redesigned Edge and Bing search experience pitched as your “copilot” to the World Wide Web.
“We’re going to reshape the largest software category on Earth,” says Nadella. “Search […] a race starts today, and we’re going to bring out a lot of new things.”
Nadella is now talking through, how earlier this year, he learned about the ways in which tools like ChatGPT are being used to help farmers in rural India get access to government aid and supplies.
He’s angling towards arguing that machine learning and tools we think about when we think about “AI” can be powerful tools for good, if used in accord with the right principles.
“Both we at Microsoft and our partners at OpenAI deeply care about this,” Nadella said. “I think this technology is going to reshape pretty much every software category.”
We’re sat here in a small theater in Redmond and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has just walked out to warm up the crowd.
One area we hope that Microsoft touches on when talking about AI today is security. As our security editor Anthony Spadafora wrote in December, AI-powered cyberattacks are a concern that tech companies are going to need to address.
You can also brush up on your own ChatGPT skills with out guide on how to use ChatGPT. It’ll be good practice for when the ChatGPT-equipped version of Bing drops.
If you’re still not up to speed on ChatGPT, why not find out what this tool is all about from the chatbot itself? Our colleague Malcolm McMillian “interviewed” ChatGPT last month to find out exactly what it does.
Google’s plan to take on ChatGPT will take the form of Bard, which CEO Sundar Pichai announced in a blog post (opens in new tab) yesterday. Bard is described as an experimental conversational AI service powered by Google’s Language Model for Dialogue Applications, or LaMDA.
Says Pichai:
“Bard seeks to combine the breadth of the world’s knowledge with the power, intelligence and creativity of our large language models. It draws on information from the web to provide fresh, high-quality responses. Bard can be an outlet for creativity, and a launchpad for curiosity, helping you to explain new discoveries from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to a 9-year-old, or learn more about the best strikers in football right now, and then get drills to build your skills.”
We’ll find out more about Bard later this week, as Google has an event of its own scheduled for February 8. Here’s our look at how Bard is meant to fight ChatGPT.
Reports of Bing getting a ChatGPT-inspired makeover come from leaked screenshots first reported on by The Verge. In this version of Bing, the traditional search bar gave way to a composer text box similar to ChatGPT’s composer text box.
That wouldn’t necessarily mean the search bar is disappearing, just that you’ll have the option of asking Bing questions, similar to how you’d ask ChatGPT something.
We should find out what’s happening to Bing soon enough.
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