Microsoft announced today that it is incorporating advanced artificial intelligence capabilities into its search engine, Bing, with the addition of a new feature similar to ChatGPT.
Microsoft revealed its plans to integrate ChatGPT at a private event today at its headquarters in Redmond on its partnership with OpenAI. During the event, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella emphasized the importance of this new feature and how it will change the way people interact with search engines.
“I think this technology will change almost every category of software,” Nadella said.
Nadella proclaimed: “The race starts today,” and Microsoft is going to “move and move fast.”
Attendees at the event were given a brief overview of the latest search capabilities, which Microsoft calls “your Artificial Intelligence-based co-pilot for the Web.”
This new experience combines the all-new Bing search engine and the Edge web browser to complement each other.
Nadella explained that the new Bing will provide direct answers to questions and encourage users to be more creative.
He also stated that the current search experience doesn’t work as well as it should, as 40 percent of the time people click on search links and then come right back.
This clearly indicates that the search experience needs to be updated and improved. Nadella argues that the user experience of the search engine hasn’t changed in 20 years, and it’s time for Microsoft to adapt.
Introducing the new Bing
The new Bing is based on OpenAI’s next-generation language model, which has been specifically adapted for search purposes. It’s even more powerful than the ChatGPT model.
Microsoft has introduced a new way of working with OpenAI, called the Promethean model, which improves the relevance of responses, annotates them, keeps them up to date, and more. The search index has also been improved by applying an AI model to the core search algorithm, which Nadella calls the biggest jump in relevance ever.
It runs on a new user interface with an expanded search box that accepts up to 1,000 characters. The examples shared during the event look just like the recent leaks. The new Bing includes a chatbot that behaves similar to ChatGPT, allowing users to interact with Bing in natural language.
Bing’s new ChatGPT-like feature will take this one step further by allowing users to have a real conversation with the search engine, with the ability to answer previous questions and provide more context for their search.
The new Bing is now available for a limited preview on the desktop, and anyone can try it out by visiting Bing.com and performing searches.
The preview will expand to millions of users in the near future, and a mobile version will be available soon. The chat interface demonstrated by Microsoft in Bing is available as a sidebar feature in Edge, allowing users to access it without going to the Bing website. The interface can work alongside and interact with any Web page. During the demonstration, the AI Assistant in Edge could summarize a 15-page PDF file with one click and even translate a snippet of code from Stack Overflow into another programming language. Another advantage of the Edge browser’s “co-pilot” is that it does tasks for you, such as filling out forms and writing emails.
Microsoft has made a significant leap in search engine technology by integrating a feature like ChatGPT into its Bing search engine.
The new Bing is based on OpenAI’s next-generation language model, which leverages key knowledge and advances from ChatGPT and GPT-3.5.
Bing with AI co-pilot is now available for a limited preview on desktop, and a mobile version will be available soon. In addition, the chat interface will be available as a sidebar feature in the new Edge browser, with the ability to summarize information, translate code and even perform tasks.
