I am old enough to remember when a then tiny company transformed our usage of the Internet with the introduction of its search engine which did away with the older search indices (Yahoo, Altavista, and the like) – mainly because it was simply much better and much more useful!
And then we had this announcement last week:
Microsoft aims for AI-powered version of Bing
By Staff Writer on Jan 5, 2023 10:47AM
Incorporating technology behind ChatGPT.
Microsoft is in the works to launch a version of its search engine Bing using the artificial intelligence behind OpenAI-launched chatbot ChatGPT, The Information reported, citing two people with direct knowledge of the plans.
Microsoft could launch the new feature before the end of March, and hopes to challenge Google, the news website reported
Microsoft said in a blog post last year that it planned to integrate image-generation software from OpenAI, DALL-E 2, into Bing.
OpenAI and Microsoft declined to comment.
Microsoft had in 2019 backed San Francisco-based artificial intelligence company OpenAI, offering US$1 billion (A$1.46 billion) in funding.
The two had formed a multi-year partnership to develop artificial intelligence supercomputing technologies on Microsoft's Azure cloud computing service.
OpenAI made its latest creation ChatGPT chatbot available for free public testing on November 30.
More here:
https://www.itnews.com.au/news/microsoft-aims-for-ai-powered-version-of-bing-589497
To date Bing has been very much a second string search engine – working pretty much as well as Google but having the disadvantage of not being a verb!
The addition of ChatGPT capability seems likely to rather swing the balance towards Bing but under what feels like almost an existential threat I reckon Google will have a similar matching product out at the same time, if not before, the updated Bing arrives!
The battle of the bots – and their technology will be something to watch this year! I am sure there is more to come….
David.
I think it will take a little more than cheap tricks to shift search engine habits. Bing is a noisy UI just as AOL was. I used Bing this morning, was confronted with what was basically a trashing gossip magazine. Give me a clean UI with a search bar front and cf centre.
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