What is the new Bing from Microsoft with ChatGPT? Here’s what you need to know.

What is Microsoft's new Bing?

Microsoft revealed a refreshed Bing in early February, with the connection with ChatGPT being the main feature.

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The new Bing contains a chat function driven by a next-generation version of OpenAI's big language model, making it "more powerful than ChatGPT," according to Microsoft.

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With the new Bing, you can ask the AI chatbot questions and get thorough, human-like replies with footnotes that connect back to the original sources. The chatbot may also assist you with creative tasks such as composing a poem, tale, song, or other creative work.

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When was Microsoft's new Bing announced?

Microsoft introduced the new Bing on February 7, 2023, and it has been available to a restricted number of customers since then. This announcement occurred only one day after Google Bard, their Artificial chatbot.

What language model is used by Microsoft's new Bing?

Microsoft introduced the Bing chatbot in February, stating that it will be powered by a next-generation OpenAI big language model tailored exclusively for search.

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Microsoft claims that the next-generation large language model (LLM) that powers the new Bing is quicker, more accurate, and "competent" than ChatGPT or GPT-3.5, the LLM that powers ChatGPT. The main distinction is that Bing's AI chatbot has an internet connection, but ChatGPT does not.

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Who has access to Microsoft's new Bing?

Bing's chatbot is now in limited preview mode as Microsoft tests it with the general public, but there is a queue for early access that you may join. Installing Edge, making it the default browser, and making Bing the default search engine are three techniques for getting off the waitlist faster. You may also utilize the Bing Mobile app, which you can download and install.

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According to Yusuf Mehdi, Microsoft corporate vice president and consumer chief marketing officer, "many millions" of people have already signed up for the queue, up from a little over a million two days after the debut.

What is Microsoft's involvement with ChatGPT?

Before adopting ChatGPT into its Bing browser, Microsoft was associated with it. Even before ChatGPT was revealed to the public, the tech titan was an early investment in OpenAI, the AI research business behind it.

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Microsoft's first participation with OpenAI was in 2019 when it invested $1 billion, followed by $2 billion in subsequent years. In January, Microsoft expanded its cooperation with OpenAI through a multi-year, multi-billion dollar investment.

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Neither business mentioned the investment figure, but Bloomberg reported that it would reach $10 billion over several years. In exchange, Microsoft's Azure service will be the only cloud computing provider for OpenAI, powering all OpenAI workloads spanning research, goods, and API services.

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What has been the controversy around Microsoft's new Bing?

Individuals were granted early access to the chatbot and have been open about discussing their experiences. Several of these users made it their mission to test the chatbot's skills and disclose its weaknesses, which were numerous.

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The chatbot was behaving out of control, disclosing its sensitive codename used internally by engineers, proclaiming its love for a New York Times writer and begging him to divorce his wife, and wishing it was alive.

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As a result, Microsoft opted to rein in the chatbot with a new chat restriction, altering chat sessions from unrestricted to a five-question limit and a 50-chat turn limit each day. This restriction was then increased to six chat turns each session and 60 total talks per day, which was still less than the consumers' original experience.

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Microsoft says that complicated, extended conversation sessions were not something they were necessary testing for internally. Therefore the public's use and criticism have been valuable in learning more about the chatbot.

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"The entire reason we're testing the new Bing in the open with a small group of preview testers is to uncover these uncommon use scenarios from which we can learn and enhance the product," Microsoft explains.

Is Microsoft's AI chatbot better than ChatGPT?

ZDNET examined Microsoft Bing's chatbot and Open AI's ChatGPT chatbot. Testing Bing's version revealed that it fixed important difficulties with ChatGPT, such as awareness of current events via internet access and footnotes with connections to sources from which the information was retrieved.

How will the launching of the new Bing affect Microsoft?

After being dominated by Google Search for the past 14 years, Microsoft's search engine is seeing an extraordinary surge in popularity.

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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella stated that ChatGPT will "fundamentally change" all software, beginning with the "largest category of all — search." Microsoft claims that adding its next-generation version of OpenAI's GPT to Bing will result in the "largest jump in relevance in two decades," It comes up with the "Microsoft Prometheus," a proprietary model that meshes with OpenAI's models to provide more relevant results.

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If the hype around ChatGPT spreads to Bing as a search engine, Microsoft's user base might grow significantly. ChatGPT amassed 100 million users in just two months, making it the fastest-growing 'application' of all time.

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According to Statista, Bing has over 1.2 billion users. Yet, according to Statcounter GlobalStats, Bing has around 4% of the global search market, compared to Google's 92%.

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