Microsoft has recently announced its integration of OpenAI’s GPT-4 model into Bing, providing a ChatGPT-like experience within the search engine. The company is also launching a new Bing preview today, with these new AI features built into the sidebar. Here are some of the key points you need to know about this exciting development.
GPT-4 is the latest and most advanced version of the Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT) model, developed by OpenAI, a research organization dedicated to creating and ensuring the safe use of artificial intelligence. GPT-4 is a large language model (LLM) that can generate natural language texts on almost any topic, given a prompt or a query. It does this by using a deep neural network with 175 billion parameters, trained on a massive corpus of text data from the web. GPT-4 can produce coherent and diverse texts, such as stories, essays, poems, code, lyrics, and more, as well as answer questions and chat with users.
How does Bing Chat use GPT-4?
Bing Chat is a new feature that allows users to interact with GPT-4 directly within the Bing search engine. Users can access Bing Chat by clicking on the chat icon on the sidebar, or by typing “chat” in the search box. Bing Chat then opens a chat window, where users can type in their prompts or queries, and get responses from GPT-4. Users can also choose from different conversation styles, such as friendly, professional, humorous, or creative, to customize their chat experience. Bing Chat can help users with various tasks, such as searching, answering, chatting, and creating content.
What are the benefits of Bing Chat?
Bing Chat offers several benefits for users, such as:
- Enhanced search capabilities: Bing Chat can help users find the information they need more easily and quickly, by providing relevant and up-to-date results, followed by source citations. Users can also ask follow-up questions or clarifications, and get more detailed answers from GPT-4.
- Improved content creation: Bing Chat can help users generate customer-ready content based on their ideas, such as headlines, slogans, summaries, captions, and more. Users can also use Bing Image Creator, a feature that uses DALL-E, another AI model from OpenAI, to create graphical artworks based on text prompts.
- Engaging chat experience: Bing Chat can provide users with an engaging and entertaining chat experience, by using natural language and different tones. Users can chat with GPT-4 about various topics, such as news, sports, entertainment, hobbies, and more, and get interesting and diverse responses.
How does Bing Chat protect user data?
Bing Chat is designed with user privacy and security in mind. Bing Chat operates outside the user’s tenant boundary, has no access to internal company data, and chat data is purged with each new session. Bing Chat also does not retain the user’s chat history, and does not use the user’s data to train the underlying LLM. Users can also control their Bing Chat settings and preferences, such as enabling or disabling the feature, choosing the conversation style, and adjusting the response length.
How does Bing Chat compare with Microsoft 365 Copilot?
Microsoft 365 Copilot is another AI-powered feature that Microsoft offers to its users, as part of its Microsoft 365 suite of products and services. Microsoft 365 Copilot is a writing assistant that helps users with various writing tasks, such as composing emails, creating presentations, writing reports, and more. Microsoft 365 Copilot uses GPT-3, the previous version of the GPT model, to generate suggestions and corrections for the user’s writing. Microsoft 365 Copilot also integrates with the user’s data and documents, and learns from the user’s feedback.
Bing Chat and Microsoft 365 Copilot are complementary features that serve different purposes and audiences. Bing Chat is a general-purpose chat feature that can help users with various tasks, such as searching, answering, chatting, and creating content, using GPT-4. Bing Chat is available to anyone who uses Bing, and does not access or store the user’s data. Microsoft 365 Copilot is a specific-purpose writing feature that can help users with various writing tasks, such as composing, editing, and formatting, using GPT-3. Microsoft 365 Copilot is available to Microsoft 365 subscribers, and integrates with the user’s data and documents.
