In a post on its website today, Microsoft said that the new version of the Bing Engine, powered by artificial intelligence for ChatGPT, is actually more powerful than ChatGPT itself.
While harnessing the power of ChatGPT, for which Bing has invested $10 billion in OpenAI, the company that developed it, Bing relies on a new language model from OpenAI for its searches, and the company added that the model has been developed with faster, more accurate, and better functionality. from ChatGPT.
Microsoft today unveiled an updated version of the Bing engine that now includes a chat feature that allows users to ask questions and get answers in natural language. The product uses an updated version of OpenAI's AI-based language model that supports GPT chat, a so-called "Prometheus model" that provides up-to-date information with annotated answers. In addition to displaying traditional search results on the same page, the search engine provides short and intelligent answers to user questions.
The company also plans to launch a new search engine and an updated version of the Edge web browser that will offer improved search capabilities, richer answers, and a new chat experience.
Microsoft added that it has developed its own handling of OpenAI models, allowing it to better leverage its strengths to provide the user with updated results that are more relevant to what they are looking for as well as a broader scope for security. . The improvements to the search engine are not only in offering chat functionality, but also in the quality of traditional search results. It also said it applied the new model to the Bing results engine, which is the biggest improvement over its 20-year life. The quality of search engine results based on the accuracy of those results and their relevance to the search term.
According to the company, the update not only includes answering user questions and improving search results, but also helps users write emails or prepare for job interviews and plan their next vacation.
As competition for the introduction of AI into the search engine grows, Google announced yesterday that its Bart AI software will also be integrated into the Google search engine, similar to Bing.