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OpenAI tech gives Microsoft's Bing a boost in search battle with Google

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Re: OpenAI tech gives Microsoft's Bing a boost in search battle with Google

#11
Users have to sign in with a Microsoft account to use this. Is that the future? You have to sign up to search?

It takes more resources per query to run AI-based search than a search engine. Everybody offering ChatGPT type systems is either pay per view or heavily throttled. We may be in the last days of free search as the dominant product.

Re: OpenAI tech gives Microsoft's Bing a boost in search battle with Google

#12
I am one of the people that installed the Bing app because I was told that it would bump me up the waitlist for Bing Chat.

I have not used it at all, and this is a reminder that I should probably uninstall it. I have access to ChatGPT, Bard, Alpaca etc. and there’s very little reason at this point to pretend to use Bing in order to get a crack at Chat.

Re: OpenAI tech gives Microsoft's Bing a boost in search battle with Google

#13

That's cool in the short term, but it will be news when it's sustained. I logged in to Bing for the first time in forever to play with the AI some, but it didn't change my default search behavior of using Google, and now it's been easily two weeks since I went to Bing at all.

I got access a while back, but haven't tried it yet. I don't have a windows machine to run Edge on.

Edge runs on Mac too, with the chat stuff, same as on Windows.

Re: OpenAI tech gives Microsoft's Bing a boost in search battle with Google

#16

That's cool in the short term, but it will be news when it's sustained. I logged in to Bing for the first time in forever to play with the AI some, but it didn't change my default search behavior of using Google, and now it's been easily two weeks since I went to Bing at all.

I got access a while back, but haven't tried it yet. I don't have a windows machine to run Edge on.

Thankfully changing your user agent is enough

Re: OpenAI tech gives Microsoft's Bing a boost in search battle with Google

#17

That's cool in the short term, but it will be news when it's sustained. I logged in to Bing for the first time in forever to play with the AI some, but it didn't change my default search behavior of using Google, and now it's been easily two weeks since I went to Bing at all.

The Bing AI is too crippled. It would be nice to have the option to remove its handcuffs. The chat limit and the constant “I’m sorry but I cannot continue this line of conversation” gets annoying fast. I was also able to get better answers from ChatGpt running on gpt3 than on Bing running on gpt4 for this very reason.

Re: OpenAI tech gives Microsoft's Bing a boost in search battle with Google

#19
post #15

I signed up to the Bing GPT "beta" waitlist (I hadn't logged into my Microsoft account in years) only to be told, days later, that I had to use Edge to try it. I noped out of there.

you don't ACTUALLY have to use edge to use it. just use a chrome extension to fake your useragent to pretend to be Edge. I despise needless microsoft hubris
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