Currently, Microsoft's AI service Bing Chat needs to log in to a Microsoft account to have a normal conversation. However, according to foreign media Ghacks , Microsoft is about to provide a "authentication-free" Bing chat feature - users can chat with Bing in the Edge browser even without logging in to a Microsoft account.
Michael Schechter, vice president of Microsoft Bing, has confirmed the authenticity of the anonymous Bing Chat feature on Twitter :
As some of you have noticed, we've started rolling out authentication-free chat on Bing.
But a non-logged-in session is only 5 chat rounds, and a logged-in session allows for longer conversations.
A "chat round" above includes the user's question and the AI's answer. According to the editor's experience, 5 chat rounds can't actually ask anything. If you log in to your Microsoft account normally, you can have 20 chat rounds in a single conversation to get a little deeper into what you need.
Recalling that when the Bing Chat function was first launched, it still required a long "standby" process for the Microsoft account. The editor waited for about half a month. As OpenAI continues to reduce the cost and load optimization of ChatGPT, Microsoft's Bing Chat function will cancel the standby on May 4, 2023 (by mentioning, Google's Bard does not seem to need to be on standby), and it becomes normal when you log in to your Microsoft account use.
Now the Bing Chat function has to be simplified again, and it can be used with the Edge browser, and the pace of AI technology integrating into daily life has gone a step further (but in areas where ChatGPT itself does not support, Bing should still not support it).
It should be noted that the "no need to log in to Bing Chat function" has not been fully launched. At present, Bing Chat still needs to log in to a Microsoft account to use it, and Microsoft has not disclosed its specific launch date and other information.