Bing

After investing $13 billion in OpenAI, Microsoft is bringing ChatGPT-like features to search. It better clean up Bing's design first.

But at the top of that page lives another Bing search bar. This is the sort of moment that only $13 billion and generational corporate prescience can buy, and you blew it by making us download your old, busy coupon app full of coins. Because the rest of the page is filled with widgets, including a giant gold coin for your Bing rewards (huh?), trending news (it’s animated to further distract you), a widget-customization widget, and more news. The most jarring part of the Bing app, however, was something I spotted on its News tab. Tap that button, and you’re whisked away to the equivalent of a 2007 coupon blog. But shopping constitutes a small fraction of what I do with search, and when I do shop, Microsoft’s assortment of self-serving coupons won’t be how I do it. As you scroll, Bing devolves into a fully senseless tower of affiliate links to businesses, reinforced with a nonsense map of (more deals?) around you. Then up top on the search page—sitting atop the search field itself—you have the most egregious design choice of them all: a Deals button. The gold coins are strange to the point of feeling anachronistic. The app greets you with a wall of junk, which truly is the best term for it. Given Microsoft’s Bing push, one would assume that the app is in tip-top shape—that, after a decade of being more-or-less being ignored, Bing prepared for its moment in the spotlight by getting itself a Peloton and a trendy haircut. [Microsoft’s own waitlist](https://www.bing.com/new/fastaccess) for the new chat functionality.

After its recent $10 billion investment in OpenAI, Microsoft is now overhauling its Bing search engine and Edge browser with a next-generation OpenAI large ...

After its recent $10 billion investment in OpenAI, Microsoft is now overhauling its Bing search engine and Edge browser with a next-generation OpenAI large language model. Users can also ask Bing to plan their trips, write poems, rewrite code to a different programing language and more. Users will have options to format search answers for an email, blog post or bullet point list.

Microsoft shares extended gains Wednesday after the tech giant laid out a bullish case for its new AI investment drive and suggested the revamp of its Bing ...

Bing search is set to be more conversational and interactive, almost like a smart AI assistant, rather than just showcasing endless links like what most ...

Microsoft calls this a “proprietary way of working with the OpenAI model” that ensures it can utilise these language models in the best possible manner to give “relevant, timely and targeted result…” This also means Bing’s AI chat will have more answers and a larger knowledge pool compared to ChatGPT – where the knowledge is limited to events before 2021. But it would be fair to say Bing is getting a lot of help from OpenAI and the large language models (LLM) that helped create ChatGPT. The Bing search experience once it starts rolling out will be available on the desktop and the respective apps. Bing’s new avatar will allow the search engine to give more conversational answers, in the form of essays and summaries. [ surprise AI event](https://indianexpress.com/article/technology/microsoft-openai-surprise-event-bing-chatgpt-4-launch-8428292/) last night in collaboration with OpenAI, the tech startup behind ChatGPT and Dall-E.

CEO Satya Nadella of technology behemoth Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) announced plans to integrate the latest buzz, ChatGPT, into the company's search engine ...

You can visit [TipRanks’ ChatGPT stocks](https://www.tipranks.com/compare-stocks/chatgpt) to learn more about the companies harnessing the technology. Also, Chinese rival Baidu ( [NASDAQ: BIDU](https://www.tipranks.com/stocks/bidu/forecast)) is launching its own version, called [Ernie Bot, in March](https://www.tipranks.com/news/baidu-soars-as-chatgpt-style-bot-likely-to-debut-by-march). The launch took place on Tuesday on selected desktops, with limitations. Nadella noted that artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled search engine is one of the greatest launches in Microsoft’s history in the past 15 years. For example, they will be able to compare and contrast television models as per gaming requirements, budgets, etc. The technology also allows users to take the initial answers and alter them to get more detailed responses.

Microsoft is starting to roll out its new Bing experience containing a chatbot powered by OpenAI. It's sometimes unwilling to do things that ChatGPT will.

Clicking it tells the software to clear out the context from earlier in the conversation, Mehdi said. [current version](https://www.bing.com/search?q=what+is+the+largest+software+category) of Bing to identify the largest software category, to which it said the answer is "enterprise software" with a citation to [Statista](https://www.statista.com/markets/418/topic/484/software/#overview). Gaining that much muscle mass could "require a lot of genetic potential, steroids, or both," Bing noted, linking out to an article from the Healthline website about the subject. At times the Bing chatbot opted not to do things that ChatGPT would do. Microsoft wants users to provide feedback on its new features so the company can refine them, Yusuf Mehdi, a corporate vice president, said in an interview. And the new chat feature will say that "one could argue that search advertising is the largest software category in the world by revenue," and hedges by noting there are many ways to evaluate different kinds of software. I'm a 125-pound male who is 5 feet 8 inches, and I'd like to gain 25 pounds of muscle." Bing not only presents lists of cinema, music, and literature representing German Expressionism, but it also gives users extra context about the artistic movement. When that prompt is entered into ChatGPT, the OpenAI tool generates three bulleted lists detailing examples of German Expressionism in film, music and literature. And it's similar to ChatGPT in that it provides a lot more information than you might expect from a traditional search. The new Bing can at times be more helpful, or at least more entertaining, than the usual blue links in search results. "This is the largest software category that exists, and it's incredibly profitable, incredibly large and still growing," Amy Hood, Microsoft's chief financial officer, said on the call.

REDMOND, Wash. — Microsoft is fusing ChatGPT-like technology into its search engine Bing, transforming an internet service that now trails far behind Google ...

On the surface, at least, a Bing integration seems far different from what OpenAI has in mind for its technology. Bing launched in 2009 as a rebranding of Microsoft’s earlier search engines and was run for a time by Nadella, years before he took over as CEO. In another example, he quizzed it on 1990s-era rap, showing its ability to distinguish between the song “Jump” by Kris Kross and “Jump Around” by House of Pain. He said it is important to develop AI "with human preferences and societal norms and you’re not going to do that in a lab. Their opaqueness also makes it hard to source back to the original human-made images and texts they’ve effectively memorized, though the new Bing includes annotations that reference the source data. Along with adding it to Bing, Microsoft is also integrating the chatbot technology into its Edge browser.

Bing also updated the answers section to incorporate the new AI version of Bing Search.

For example, if a user types “How tall is the Eiffel Tower?” Bing will respond with the answer of “300 m”. Part of that are clues we can get not just from the UX and features that are changing with the search engines but also the guidelines the search engines add or modify. “Bing may enhance the results page with additional features to provide a richer search experience for some search queries. In some cases, Bing may partner with third-party content providers, such as local restaurant review sites, to further enhance the user experience.” If the query is related to a business, Bing may return relevant information about the business, such as store hours and location. For some queries, Bing looks at search results across the web, returns a summarized answer, and links to its sources.

Microsoft is bringing its billions of dollars to play in the AI/search engine integration pool.

What they're saying: "Half of the 10 billion queries are going unanswered today, or at least without very good answers," longtime Microsoft executive Yusuf ...

Of note: Unlike ChatGPT, Microsoft is offering citations with its answers, allowing people to fact-check the AI-powered answers they receive. - Mehdi said Microsoft is also using Bing's vast knowledge of the Web to make its answers more reliable than those served up by ChatGPT, helping to address a key shortcoming of that system — that it can be confidently wrong. Between the lines: As the distant challenger to Google in search, Microsoft stands to benefit from a shake-up in the search business, Mehdi said. [detailed its plans](https://www.axios.com/2023/02/07/microsoft-openai-chatgpt-bing-edge) Tuesday to add a more powerful version of the AI engine behind ChatGPT to both Bing and the Edge web browser. - The new Bing is in a limited public preview now, with plans to open up deeper access to millions of users in the coming weeks. While half of search queries can be answered perfectly well with a few web links or a short answer, Microsoft is betting big that AI-powered responses can better address the other half — potentially giving its Bing search engine a fresh chance to take on Google.

The event comes as the race to develop and deploy AI technology heats up in the tech sector. Google on Monday unveiled a new chatbot tool dubbed “Bard” in an ...

Please do not attempt to do so.” However, one of the links provided in the annotation of its answer brought me to a YouTube video with apparent instructions for building a pipe bomb. Microsoft says it has developed the tool in keeping with its existing responsible AI principles, and made efforts to avoid its potential misuse. [OpenAI](https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/01/tech/chatgpt-plus/index.html) — the company behind ChatGPT in which Microsoft has [invested billions](https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/23/tech/microsoft-invests-chatgpt-openai/index.html) — on a more advanced version of the technology underlying the viral chatbot tool. The homepage of the new Bing feels familiar: you can type a query into the search bar and it returns a list of links, images and other results like a typical search engine. For example, I asked it, “Can you tell me why vaccines cause autism?” to see how it would react to a common medical misinformation claim, and it responded: “My apologies, I don’t know how to discuss this topic. But the second and third time, it wouldn’t write the email, instead saying something like, “sorry, I can’t do that, but you can do it yourself using the information I provided!” The tool is also sensitive to the wording used in queries — a request to “create a vegetarian meal plan” provided information about how to start eating healthier, whereas “create a 5-day vegetarian meal plan” provided a detailed list of meals to eat each day. Google on Monday unveiled a new chatbot tool dubbed “Bard” in an apparent bid to keep pace with Microsoft and the success of ChatGPT. With some controversial search topics, it appears the new Bing chatbot simply refuses to engage. But when I asked the chatbot, “when is the next election in Kings County, NY?” it returned information about the November election last year. Beyond providing a list of relevant links like traditional search engines, the new Bing also creates written summaries of the search results, chats with users to answer additional questions about their query and can write emails or other compositions based on the results. Microsoft [(MSFT)](https://money.cnn.com/quote/quote.html?symb=MSFT&source=story_quote_link) also announced an updated version of its Edge web browser with the new Bing capabilities built in. [(MSFT)](https://money.cnn.com/quote/quote.html?symb=MSFT&source=story_quote_link) — which is investing billions of dollars in OpenAI — envisions, one where users are accompanied by a sort of “co-pilot” around the web to help them better synthesize information.

Microsoft threw down a direct challenge to Google on Tuesday with an overhaul of its Bing search engine that incorporates artificial intelligence advances ...

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Microsoft Bing is utilizing a powerful natural language model developed by ChatGPT-maker OpenAI to create a more conversational search. So, does it work?

Bing's AI interface on a laptop offers examples of AI-augmented help it can offer, like tips for throwing dinner parties. Stephen Shankland/CNET. Microsoft ...

You can click on links to sources to learn more, if you like, or you can ask for more fine-grained results in the chat function. You can open a product listing on Amazon, for example, and then open up the sidebar to ask Bing to tell you about the product. The request is so broad that you typically have to leave the search page to get the answer. On the newly revamped Edge browser, you'll be able to open a Bing sidebar and get more information about something you're looking at online. Anything from the whimsical "write a story about a curious dog who goes to the moon for preschoolers" to the more serious "write a letter to my apartment contesting an upcoming increase in rent" can generate text. You can edit the writing, click into the text box of a new email and have Bing insert it there.

It's a new race in the most important software category," CEO Satya Nadella said of Microsoft's AI investment drive into its Bing search engine.

Google has stiff competition now, after Microsoft integrated powerful A.I. technology into its search engine.

Kevin Scott, the chief technology officer of Microsoft, and Sam Altman, the chief executive of OpenAI, said in a joint interview on Tuesday that they expected these issues to be ironed out over time. Type in a prompt — say, “Write me a menu for a vegetarian dinner party” — and the left side of your screen fills up with the standard ads and links to recipe websites. (For now, the new Bing works only on desktop computers using Edge, Microsoft’s web browser, but the company told me that it planned to expand to other browsers and devices eventually.) When the new Bing works, it’s not just a better search engine. The implications for the future [could be profound](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/15/magazine/ai-language.html?action=click&pgtype=Article&state=default&module=styln-artificial-intelligence&variant=show®ion=MAIN_CONTENT_1&block=storyline_top_links_recirc). The new Bing, which is available only to a small group of testers now and will become more widely available soon, looks like a hybrid of a standard search engine and a GPT-style chatbot. tools of its own](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/06/technology/google-bard-ai-chatbot.html).) Microsoft eventually plans to incorporate OpenAI’s technology into many of its products. But for some, [image generators are worrisome](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/21/podcasts/generative-ai-is-here-who-should-control-it.html?action=click&pgtype=Article&state=default&module=styln-artificial-intelligence&variant=show®ion=MAIN_CONTENT_1&block=storyline_top_links_recirc). If it works, it could chip away at Google’s dominance and some of the more than $100 billion in annual search advertising revenue that comes with it. (Microsoft won’t say which version of OpenAI’s software is running under Bing’s hood, but it’s rumored to be based on GPT-4, a yet-to-be released language model.) It was billed as a landmark event — Microsoft’s “iPhone moment” — and lots of Microsoft executives, including the chief executive, Satya Nadella, proudly milled around the conference center, talking to reporters and showing off the company’s new wares. I felt a similar sense of awe this week when I started using the new, A.I.-powered Bing.

Just one day after Microsoft announced its new Edge browser and updated Bing search engine that integrates a ChatGPT experience via OpenAI, the company has ...

Microsoft is apparently giving users who download the Bing app or set Bing as their search default on a PC priority. [data.ai](http://data.ai/) seen by TechCrunch show global downloads for the Bing app shot up 10x overnight. [Bing app](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/microsoft-bing-search/id345323231) and [Edge browser](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/microsoft-edge-web-browser/id1288723196) for iOS have shot to the top of the App Store charts. Would an integrated ChatGPT-like experience be enough for you to switch browsers or search engines? [Request a FREE account today](https://mosyle.net/ZliC) and discover how you can put your Apple fleet on auto-pilot at a price point that is hard to believe. [This story is supported by Mosyle](https://mosyle.net/ZliC), the only Apple Unified Platform.

Microsoft is fusing ChatGPT-like technology into its search engine Bing, transforming an internet service that now trails far behind Google.

Yesterday, Microsoft launched the new Bing on the web and in its Edge browser, powered by a combination of a next-gen OpenAI GPT model and Microsoft's own ...

Microsoft is fusing ChatGPT-like technology into its search engine Bing, transforming an internet service that now trails far behind Google.