Microsoft announces Bing and Edge versions with OpenAI integration

Microsoft has announced a new version of its Bing search engine that integrates OpenAI’s GPT technology. The search engine must therefore answer user questions better than a traditional search engine.

The results of the GPT software appear on the desktop in a right-hand bar, next to the regular search results. For example, the software can calculate whether a certain sofa fits in a certain car by looking up the dimensions of both objects online and making the calculation. The event cannot be followed online, but among other things The Verge is reporting live.

In addition to the more traditional Search interface, there will also be a Chat interface to ask questions to the software. It is in a tab next to the search results and users must therefore click separately in Bing. The answers do use information from the internet and the software also provides links. It is unknown what the copyright is on information that the chatbot presents as answers. It is also unknown whether sites can unsubscribe from being scraped for information in the software.

The software is not based on the current ChatGPT, but on a ‘next generation’. Earlier it was rumored that Microsoft wanted to use GPT-4 in Bing, but Microsoft did not mention that by name at its own event.

Microsoft announced the integration at its own event at its headquarters in Redmond, USA. Google announced Bard on Monday evening, a chatbot that will be included in Google’s search engine. Bard is based on Language Model for Dialogue Applications, or LaMDA, which Google has been working on for some time. The fact that Microsoft wanted to integrate the OpenAI technology into Bing has been the subject of speculation for some time.

Source: The Verge