Microsoft accidentally pre-released a revolutionary innovation in its Bing search engine. Several users were shown the innovation and posted screenshots of it on Twitter, the American tech blog The Verge reports.
The most significant change is the integration of the AI language model GPT from the Silicon Valley start-up OpenAI. Supposedly this is the latest previously unreleased version GPT-4.
What’s revolutionary about that?
The current version GPT-3 is currently causing a stir worldwide in the formerly free ChatGPT tool. Here users can ask the system any questions or tasks that can be solved in the form of a text.
If desired, the ChatBot writes essays on any topic, types apology letters, or writes working code for popular programming languages.
The results are often impressive. However, ChatGPT does not have access to current data, its knowledge ends in 2021. Another problem is that it is not clear to users where the AI system gets its information from, as no sources are given.
According to the first users, both have been solved with the variant integrated in Bing: here you can also ask current questions to the system. In addition, the system has linked sources to the answers, so that the user can better assess how reliable the information from the search engine is.
How does it look?
You still get your traditional search results, but there’s a new tab to start a chat pic.twitter.com/ugeYMCNG1c
— Owen Yin (@Owen_Yin) February 3, 2023
What is Microsoft planning?
The company OpenAI, which is responsible for the development of GPT, was founded by Elon Musk, among others. Microsoft supported the start-up financially early on and only recently invested billions more.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has already announced that the language model will be integrated into many of the company’s software products, including Bing.
In early January, the research portal “The Information” reported that Microsoft planned to launch a new GPT-enabled Bing version in March.
How does Google respond?
So far, search engine Bing lags far behind market leader Google with a low-single-digit market share. But the new variant could fundamentally change these power relations.
It is not yet known whether Google can counter this in time with at least equivalent AI support. However, Google has traditionally been strong in the field of AI research. In addition, the company has announced an event for the second week of February to showcase future new features of the search engine.
Google’s alternative to Microsoft’s new Bing may be presented on Wednesday.
Sources
- deinformation.com: “Microsoft and OpenAI work on ChatGPT powered Bing in challenge to Google”
- theverge.com: Is this Microsoft’s ChatGPT powered Bing?
(t-online/dsc)
Source: Watson
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