Bing chatbot comes to smartphones with AI

brought by Microsoft artificial intelligence chatbot Bing, the completely renewed search engine, is also available on Android and smartphone platforms. iOS. The company announced this in a blog post Wednesday. The world’s largest software group also wants to equip the Edge browser for smartphones and the videophone software Skype with artificial intelligence functions.

Microsoft takes first steps of comprehensive AI attack in collaboration with start-up OpenAI announced two weeks ago. Microsoft promises that Bing will pool reliable online sources to give users a single answer rather than a long list of links.

Test phase is not error free

Similar to text robot ChatGPT from OpenAI Impressed Bing chatbot primarily through meaningful answers during the testing phase. Delivered but sometimes false or fictitious facts. In some cases, Bing chatbot again with spontaneous declarations of love and insolent answers that caused a sensation. After that, Microsoft restricted the use of the chat tool, especially for longer dialogs that have proven to be error-prone.

During the testing phase, Microsoft did not fully open access to the new Bing, instead putting many interested parties on a waiting list. However, Microsoft manager Yusuf Mehdi wrote that meanwhile, more than a million people from 169 countries were accepted from the waiting list. “We’re adding more people to the preview every day.”

Feedback is positive

The feedback on the new functionality is positive: “71 percent of test takers ‘like’ the new Bing for the new call and answer functionality.”

Bing search queries on a smartphone do not need to be typed, but can be dictated. At the same time, the new Bing mobile app can not only display answers as written text, but also read them aloud.

Mehdi explained that the new Bing and Edge browsers for mobile phones can “act as a co-pilot for the Internet”, even if you are not sitting in front of a desktop computer. The AI ​​features in Skype are designed to improve social communication with friends and family.

With its AI initiative, Microsoft is trying to be more relevant again, not just in Internet searches, but in web browsers as well. According to the calculations of the market research company statistics counter Google currently accounts for around 93 percent of Internet searches, while Microsoft’s Bing has only 3 percent. Browsers look similarly bad: Google Chrome is ahead of Safari (Apple) by 65.4 percent, 18.7 percent. Microsoft finished Edge with 4.5 percent market share. (SDA/esd)

Source :Blick