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Microsoft announces new Bing and Edge browser powered by upgraded ChatGPT AI

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Re: Microsoft announces new Bing and Edge browser powered by upgraded ChatGPT AI

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Post by clarkdale »

layer8 wrote: post #19
dwaltrip wrote: post #14

Is this live? When will it be available?

No, it’s not live yet. From The Verge live blog: “Microsoft will roll out this new Bing interface globally but slowly. Sounds like it will be a preview or beta initially.” UPDATE: "One final piece of news to share." New Bing is live today for desktop in a "limited preview." Everyone can try a limited number of queries and sign up for full access today. Millions of people in the coming weeks as well as mobile version.

The post title should be changed to "Microsoft will add ..."

Re: Microsoft announces new Bing and Edge browser powered by upgraded ChatGPT AI

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Post by echelon »

avgDev wrote: post #16

This is going to get spicy. I wonder what impact it will have on Google's monopoly.

Google is stepping out of the frying pan and into the fire. They foolishly derive 50+% of their income from search, where there is no longer a moat.

The golden goose is cooked.

Edit: It's quite possible that anyone will be able to enter this race right now and build LLM silos for their own domain. This cracks monolithic search wide open.

GameFaqs becomes ChatGG, where you can ask, "How do I beat Ridley for the second time in Metroid Prime?"

Etc.

Websites will become less of a thing. All the people building websites will switch to building AI products.

If traffic to Google leaves by X%, they've lost. Now there are lots of new destinations.

The race is on, and apex tech companies are not the only ones that can win. Google, in fact, has to sacrifice its most important product to come out alive. That's dangerous.

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Post by zmk5 »

This is really interesting tech but I wonder how they are going to monetize this. Will it be traditional ads shown as results or would they be incorporated into the AI bots text? Like the "5-day trip to Mexico" prompt with the return being hotel stays and restaurants that fork up money to be included in the AI bots response.

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Post by bfeynman »

Tried to test Bing after probably only usually it accidentally a few times over past 10 years, holy shit is it garbage. If you search "how to use a database" the results are literally all about how to use Microsoft Access, and people call out google for favoring its own results.

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Post by rejectfinite »

enervation wrote: post #20

From the Verge's liveblogging ( https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/7/23588249/microsoft-event-a... ) "This is an important part of the presentation, but I just want to note that Microsoft is having to carefully explain how its new search engine will be prevented from helping to plan school shootings. "Early red teaming showed that the model could help plan attacks" on things like schools. "We don't want to aid in illega…

Whatever. The entire internet can be used for "malicious use"

This is cool tech, and right now it just needs to get out.

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Post by layer8 »

A quote from The Verge live blog: "Early red teaming showed that the model could help plan attacks" on things like schools. "We don't want to aid in illegal activity." So the model is used to act as a bad actor to test the model itself.

Based on that last sentence, I think I have a good idea now how AGI will take over humanity. ;)

(Not implying that the current tech is anywhere close to AGI.)

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Post by paulpan »

Most interesting tidbits: 1 - Sam Altman onstage all but confirmed the underlying LLM model as GPT-4 as he kept saying "next gen" without providing a name 2 - Microsoft is all-in by making this front-and-center of Bing, as well as deep integration into Edge browser

I'm most curious about how Microsoft is planning to pay for the infrastructure cost of serving the traffic.

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