Microsoft has announced a new version of the Bing search engine, which will, as promised, include an improved version of the OpenAI ChatGPT chatbot. The Edge web browser will also be upgraded to give you a better experience when browsing the web.
"This is a sign that the search is not working," says Microsoft's corporate vice president. "The user experience is unchanged from 20 years ago."
Bing will build a chatbot based on the GPT-4 language model (ChatGPT uses GPT-3.5). The company believes that artificial intelligence in the search engine will help users obtain the information they need faster. Unlike ChatGPT, the Bing chatbot will have access to current information about the world.
Users will be able to type in queries up to 1,000 characters long and receive AI-generated responses that appear next to regular search results.
Key accomplishments:
OpenAI's next-generation Logic Learning Machine (LLM), specifically for search engines, is more powerful than ChatGPT. A new way to work with OpenAI called the "Prometheus model" that improves relevancy, annotates answers, makes them more relevant, and more. Improved search indexing baselines by applying an AI model to the main search algorithm
A new sidebar will be added to the Microsoft Edge browser to allow you to get to the Bing chatbot at a quick clip. This is handy, since you can make a request regarding a page or document that is currently open.
A chatbot will be able to provide summary information about an open 15-page PDF file. Or, you may want to modify a piece of code from Stack Overflow into another programming language, for example Rust.
The mobile version of the new Bing will be available today for a limited number of users. Visit bing.com/new (currently unavailable).
In the next hours, a new Microsoft Edge build for the Dev channel will be released, which will include Bing integration.
