“It’s a new day in search,” Nadella said during the event on Tuesday.
Last month, Microsoft said it would be investing billions of dollars into OpenAI.
On Monday, Google, the dominant search engine on the web, announcedBard, its ChatGPT challenger.
The technology will have to overcome concerns about accuracy and safety.
Previous chatbots have been taken offline forspewing hateful language, for example.
For now, Microsoft says its technology makes Bing your co-pilot on the web.
Here’s a taste of what you’ll be able try out with the AI-powered search.
Search
you’re free to search on Bing.com, as always.
What’s new here is that Microsoft has applied OpenAI’s model to its search ranking engine.
The AI also augments the search results with written summaries.
A use case Microsoft predicts will be popular is planning a trip.
If you’re going to New Orleans for three days, for example, what should you do?
The sidebar will link to sources that can let you explore further.
Here you could refine the results.
Bing can offer pretty fine-grained results in this conversational format.
Write something
The new Bing can write for you.
you’re able to also tweak the tone of the writing, like requesting it be funny.
It’ll give you a summary of the product’s specs, cost and use cases.
That’ll pull up quotes from Amazon reviews for the vacuum that mention cats and some summary from Bing.
The request is so broad that you typically have to leave the search page to get the answer.
The new Bing wants you to stay, at least for a while.