Although people who use the new Bing, as Microsoft is now calling its search engine, still have to put themselves on a waiting list, they can now access it fairly quickly. Until now it was completely unclear who was chosen to test the search, when, how quickly and why. The opening comes just in time for an event where CEO Satya Nadella will speak about the future of work.
To test Bing, you have to use Microsoft’s browser Edge, optionally the Bing app. If you click on the chat button, you should be able to put yourself on the waiting list. A private Microsoft account is still required, company accounts do not work. It used to take a few days, weeks or even months to get access to the new Bing, but now it sometimes only takes a few minutes for the email with the confirmation to arrive. Then you can start.
Bing is now also in Edge and Skype
There is still a cap so that Bing does not turn away: 15 further questions are allowed on a complex, after which the search engine ends the conversation. In order to get to a desired answer more quickly, it is now possible to select answer styles. “Exactly” offers short answers that tend to be correct, “creative” means less factual and more detailed texts, “balanced” lies in between.
Even though all users now obviously have quick access to the new Bing, the search engine is officially still in a test phase, you get test access. Accordingly, for example, feedback is still desired. Edge, Microsoft’s browser, has also been updated with a Bing button in the top right corner. In addition, Bing can already be used in Skype chats. The @ address brings the search engine directly into the chat window. The answer is visible to all participants.
At the announced event “The Future of Work with AI”, i.e. the future of work with AI, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Jared Spataro, Vice President and responsible for Modern Work and Business Applications, will speak. Not least because of the two representatives, it is expected that there will be major news, which should primarily affect Office products. It has been clear since last week that Bing runs on OpenAIs GPT-4, other applications and service providers, such as Discord, have access to ChatGPT via API and thus GPT-3/3.5.
(emw)
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