{"id":38590,"date":"2023-02-24T14:02:31","date_gmt":"2023-02-24T19:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=38590"},"modified":"2023-03-28T09:51:55","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T13:51:55","slug":"chatgpt-in-bing-and-edge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/24\/chatgpt-in-bing-and-edge\/","title":{"rendered":"ChatGPT in Bing and Edge"},"content":{"rendered":"

James Vincent<\/a> (Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n

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In demos today the company showed what it’s calling “the new Bing” working in various configurations. One of these shows traditional search results side-by-side with AI annotations (above), while another mode lets users talk directly to the Bing chatbot, asking it questions in a chat interface like ChatGPT (below).<\/p>\n

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Unlike ChatGPT, the new Bing can also retrieve news about recent events. In The Verge<\/em>’s demos, the search engine was even able to answer questions about its own launch, citing stories published by news sites in the last hour.<\/p>\n

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In addition to the new Bing, Microsoft is launching two new AI-enhanced features for its Edge browser: “chat” and “compose.” These will be embedded within Edge’s sidebar.<\/p>\n

“Chat” allow users to summarize the webpage or document they’re looking at and ask questions about its contents, while “compose” acts as a writing assistant; helping to generate text, from emails to social media posts, based on a few starting prompts.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Nick Heer<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Microsoft announced today’s event unveiling these developments midday yesterday<\/a>, hours after Google announced its efforts<\/a> in the space, as it has done before<\/a>. I am not sure whether to read this as panic or excitement, though Meta’s caution<\/a> is notable.<\/p>\n

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The big question right now is, I think, where Amazon and Apple are at internally. Are they racing to compete with Alexa and Siri? Are they maybe waiting it out to see if this is a real, exciting development, or yet more baseless hype like so many technology land rushes before it?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Noor Al-Sibai<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The lawyer also revealed, per Insider<\/em>, that Amazon is developing “similar technology” to ChatGPT — a revelation that appeared to pique the interest of employees who said that using the AI to assist their code-writing had resulted in a tenfold productivity boost.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

Katyanna Quach<\/a> (via Hacker News<\/a>, Nick Heer<\/a>):<\/p>\n

Microsoft’s new AI-powered Bing search engine generated false information on products, places, and could not accurately summarize financial documents, according to the company’s promo video used to launch the product last week.<\/p>

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In reality, both Microsoft’s Bing and Google’s Bard are just as bad as each other. Both companies launched shoddy AI chatbots that generated text containing false information, but Microsoft’s mistakes were not immediately caught. Now, some of its errors have been spotted by Dmitri Brereton, a search engine researcher.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

Previously:<\/p>\n