Bing Users Claim a ChatGPT-assisted Bing Temporarily Appeared Friday

Several Bing users say a ChatGPT-assisted version of Bing "mysteriously appeared (and disappeared) earlier today," the Verge reported Friday: Student and designer Owen Yin reported seeing the "new Bing" on Twitter this morning. He told The Verge via Twitter DM that he has Bing set as his homepage on Microsoft's Edge browser and the new UI just loaded up. "Didn't do anything to find it," said Yin. "After a couple of minutes it stopped working ... Jaw dropped when I realized what I was looking at...!" Yin was able to briefly test the system and shared further details about the integration in a blog post on Medium. He noted that the chatbot could not only answer questions but ask them in a conversational manner.

The new Bing can also apparently cite its sources. This is an important feature, as the inability of language models like ChatGPT to describe where their information is sourced from makes them less reliable.

Yin isn't the only one who says they encountered a new Bing today either. At least two others reported receiving access to the updated search engine on Twitter before it disappeared.

Screenshots of the AI-augmented Bing show a new "chat" option appearing in the menu bar next to "search." Select it and you're taken to a chat interface that says, "Welcome to the new Bing: Your AI-powered answer engine."
The Verge adds that they were "unable to verify the authenticity of these screenshots and Microsoft declined to comment on the validity of these apparent leaks."

Bing users claim...

[nospam007]

Both of them?

Re:Bing users claim...

[backbyter]

Actually, they *implied* at least three.

Bing is really taking off.

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[Potor]

The singular they [apa.org] is a thing now, if it escaped your notice.

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[mrclevesque]

> The singular they is a thing now, if it escaped your notice.

Don't know about others, but it doesn't seem like much of a change for me. I've been using they since I was young (I'm 62) not always but often to refer to someone I've spoken to, like a store or bank clerk, a notary or government employee. In more personal situations too, but maybe less so.

It's feels weird trying to follow what cues I've been using in what situations to choose between he/she or they.

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[mrclevesque]

Some times I think I also use "they said" to mean some degree of hearsay or when someone's just informing me of a rule.

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[nospam007]

Wow, an AI Chatbot already posting here.

All you need to know

[quonset]

He told The Verge via Twitter DM that he has Bing set as his homepage on Microsoft's Edge browser

The man is mentally disturbed. Don't need to read any further.

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[GuB-42]

In think he just received a Windows update and didn't have time to solve the new "keep your default settings" puzzle.

Bing? Users?

[pezpunk]

they exist?

Yes, but will it scale

[RegistrationIsDumb83]

to the dozens of users of Bing?

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[thegarbz]

No need. There's only 3 users of Bing actually searching the internet. The rest use the image search feature to lookup weird porn and you don't need ChatGPT for that.

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[quenda]

The rest use the image search feature to lookup weird porn and you don't need ChatGPT for that.

Search for weird porn? That will soon be obsolete, when DALL-E 3 will generate any sort of porn imaginable (and then some) on request.

Appeared on DDG too?

[fbobraga]

This "CharGPT search" thing will affect duckduckgo.com too? Is so, I must move to "yet another search engine"(TM)...

Microsoft's management back at the wheel!

[ZiggyZiggyZig]

It's obvious it was Clippy. They are going to add Clippy to Bing. They're A-B testing Clippy on unsuspecting users - those who are too young to remember. Clippy will be back - it was never killed, it cannot be killed. It will be back with a vengeance.

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[cstacy]

It's obvious it was Clippy. They are going to add Clippy to Bing.

>please write me a story about Clippy

"It looks like I'm writing a story!"

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[MonkeyProgrammer]

Naw, should go all the way back to Rover [wikipedia.org].

Among other thingsâ¦

[jpellino]

This, and Googâ(TM)s AI efforts support the notion that these tools are not automagically going to create *new* knowledge, but as they are trained on existing information, just better at regurgitating knowns. Thatâ(TM)s what search engines do.

cite its sources?

[bagofbeans]

I'd be careful with this... note OpenAI not ChatGPT.

OpenAI came up with this study in the European Journal of Internal Medicine that was supposedly saying that. I went on Google and I couldn't find it. I went on PubMed and I couldn't find it. I asked OpenAI to give me a reference for that, and it spits out what looks like a reference. I look up that, and it's made up. That's not a real paper.

It took a real journal, the European Journal of Internal Medicine. It took the last names and first names, I think, of authors who have published in said journal. And it confabulated out of thin air a study that would apparently support this viewpoint.

https://www.medpagetoday.com/o... [medpagetoday.com]

World will be divided

[phantomfive]

Unless Google can come up with something equivalent, this will cause the search world to be divided between users who prefer to chat in a human-like style, and users who prefer to type keywords into a search box. I am happy to see competition in the search market but I wish it wasn't Microsoft.

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[RazorSharp]

I'm sure Google already has something equivalent. They've been heavily invested in AI. They also have a Dall-E equivalent (which is supposedly much better) but they never gave the public access to it. Google claimed this was for ethical reasons, but I suspect it's more that they're trying to figure out a business model.

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[phantomfive]

I'm sure Google already has something equivalent. They've been heavily invested in AI.

They've commented on it but it seems it's not as good. Certainly not ready to be put into a search engine.

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[Visarga]

I too have an AGI in my bedroom, I haven't released it yet, it's too powerful and the world can't deal with it now. You got to believe me, I can produce a few screenshots like Google.

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[real_nickname]

This tech basically removes the step where you search in the webpage the info you need, it will be very useful. But again, what about copyrights or credits? Every content will be sucked by this bot without giving any credits to orignal authors.

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[phantomfive]

This tech basically removes the step where you search in the webpage the info you need

Unfortunately not reliably, so you still need to double-check if it's something you care about.

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[ZERO1ZERO]

It's really Ask Jeeves, but less suck. What's old is new. Where's the new Altavista.

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[jetkust]

Google could have created ChatGPT years ago. But instead decided to make search and the internet in general incredibly inefficient and hard to use because they make more money that way.

OK, but what is it being used for ?

[SpinyNorman]

There are lots of ways an LLM like ChatGPT could be combined with search to improve the experience, and the interesting question is what are Microsoft/Bing doing here?

I think most people might be assuming that ChatGPT is being used to generate search query "content", the same as when ChatGPT is used stand-alone, but there's a couple reasons that seems unlikely to be the case:

1) Apparently Microsoft's ChatGPT integration is able to cite sources, which is something ChatGPT itself is fundamentally unable to do

Bing LOL

[motown99]

Obvious lie. No one uses Bing.