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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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How does Bing, at whatever point, overcome the odd issue of: "google it" is a verb in pretty much every culture I've traveled through. Bing isn't even in the conversation. Changing the tech doesn't mean much on this one, but I'm curious what others think here.

I expect it will be like saying "xeroxing". People pretty much know what you mean, but it's an archaic workflow, so you don't hear it a lot.

I think the paradigm shift here is that you're asking questions / getting answers / researching. You are no longer "searching for the right web page", which is what googling means.

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

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Before long, we will have 10 ai-powered search engines. Here is an idea: create a website (or browser plugin) to organize the debate between search engines. That is, for every response from bing, send a question to bard ("I heard that ... Is it true?"), and then feed a response back to bing, etc., occasionally asking ddg to chime in.

Suggested domain name: flamewar.ai

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

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How does Bing, at whatever point, overcome the odd issue of: "google it" is a verb in pretty much every culture I've traveled through. Bing isn't even in the conversation. Changing the tech doesn't mean much on this one, but I'm curious what others think here.

It'll 23 skidoo when the time comes.

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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.)

> Early red teaming showed that the model could help plan attacks" on things like schools. "We don't want to aid in illegal activity. As if that wasn't possible with conventional search engines.

And this was a huge public concern when the internet/search engines initially got popular. "Omg you can Google the ingredients to build a bomb! This shouldn't be allowed!!"

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

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This is a potentially momentous occasion here. Microsoft is betting hard that they can mount a challenge to Google, and I think ChatGPT can credibly attempt that. The answer from Google so far is weak. The thought that Bing may actually overtake Google would be hilarious a few months ago, and now it looks... possible?

Consequently, this is probably the beginning of a very abrupt end for traditional search.

It's going to eat up a lot of Wikipedia, StackOverflow, Quora, etc. traffic but it doesn't change the reality that often you need a real link to somewhere else on the Internet. And all of that is still going through Google or Bing.

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

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How does Bing, at whatever point, overcome the odd issue of: "google it" is a verb in pretty much every culture I've traveled through. Bing isn't even in the conversation. Changing the tech doesn't mean much on this one, but I'm curious what others think here.

I don't use the name brand tissue paper, but I always call it a kleenex. It'll likely be that 'googling stuff' means "looking things up online" long after Google loses dominance.

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

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post #80

This is a potentially momentous occasion here. Microsoft is betting hard that they can mount a challenge to Google, and I think ChatGPT can credibly attempt that. The answer from Google so far is weak. The thought that Bing may actually overtake Google would be hilarious a few months ago, and now it looks... possible?

Microsoft better create an API for third parties to receive traffic or otherwise interact with the GPT , or they ll get sued left and right. Sounds like this could be momentous indeed, unless i m missing something
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