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

Post by trelane » Wed, Feb 08, 2023, 3:43 AM UTC

WorldMaker wrote: post #425

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Are people using Edge? I don't use windows much anymore so I wouldn't know. But yesterday my dad asked for help logging into TurboTax. He had the login page open in Edge and ui elements were just not responding to clicks. I didn't spend any time trying to debug that and simply opened the page in Firefox where it worked perfectly.

Edge since the Chromium switch is cross-platform now. You can use Edge on Mac or Linux, too. It's not just for Windows. I prefer Firefox these days, but my work won't let me install Firefox right now so I'm using Edge on my work laptop as the best of the allowed options. At home Edge is the only Chromium browser I keep installed as I've always disliked Chrome itself but now there's far too many websites taking a "Wor…

Post by arbuge » Wed, Feb 08, 2023, 3:43 AM UTC

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SEO crap ruined search, but you can still search. Asking a chatbot is going to be promoted until you won't have any way to source the answers, and we'll rely on a big corporation's version of reality on the basis of Trust Me Bro. Great timeline, excellent job.

Post by notpachet » Wed, Feb 08, 2023, 3:51 AM UTC

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You don't need a chatbot to do any of that. You're basically just saying your too damn lazy to do any of this stuff unless the amount of effort you need to put in is as minimal as possible. While I get being tired and stressed (I'm a parent too) I feel like what you're doing is not much better than just zoning out.

That's a fairly uncharitable interpretation that I don't feel aided discussion. I used chatgpt to craft stories based on events of the day, then I reviewed and modifies, printed them out, and read them out with my kids. In a given time, it multiplied what I can achieve. I could do it without chat gpt. I could do it without computer and printer. I could do it without pen and paper. Heck I could do it the normal way an…

Post by int_19h » Wed, Feb 08, 2023, 3:54 AM UTC

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DDG is a search aggregator, and uses a bunch of different engines behind the scenes. One of them is Bing. They provide a list of the engines they use. Personally, I find DDG gives me the best results of all the engines I've tried, including Google. But plenty of other people have different experiences. My hypothesis is that it depends on what you're searching for and how you write the search query.

I have a suspicion that Google's search results are of much better quality if you allow them to track you. I still do (mostly out of laziness, I have to admit) - and I frequently find myself cursing at the uselessness of DuckDuckGo's results and using Google instead.

Post by fomine3 » Wed, Feb 08, 2023, 4:02 AM UTC

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> all but confirmed the underlying LLM model as GPT-4 as he kept saying "next gen" without providing a name 2 It is not. It's still 3.5: "Microsoft says these features are all powered by an upgraded version of GPT 3.5, the AI OpenAI language model that powers ChatGPT. Microsoft calls this the “Prometheus Model,” and says it’s more powerful than GPT 3.5, and better able to answer search queries with up-to-date informa…

An upgraded version could be 4.0