Edit: So sleepy Layan
The big one is coming!
Just now, Microsoft suddenly opened up a new Bing chatbot equipped with GPT-4.
Highlights - available to all, and no more waiting in line!
We only need to have a Microsoft account, then open Bing or Edge browser, and we can experience it in a second.
List of functions
The new Bing can not only chat, but also do many other things. Microsoft released a bunch of new features in one breath.
Ask questions, search the web, and even generate images. And that's not counting the countless plugins that will come in the future.
Currently, several main functions are listed in the official blog:
1. Vincent diagram function supports hundreds of languages
2. Moving from plain text search to multimodal chat
3. Perfect integration with Edge, you can query historical chat
4. Open platform, support developers third-party plug-ins
Wen Shengtu: natively supports Chinese, but there is still a "spell"
When it comes to drawing pictures, the editor is not sleepy, so quickly pull out those "keywords" that are easy to overturn?
In the first few tests, Bing made no secret: "Yes, I am Chinese to English."
For example, draw a man with a confident mind.
Bing: "A confident man", yes, no problem.
Next, draw a bus.
Sure enough, it was a bus...
However, why is it a strong wasteland style?
But then, after a page refresh, Bing suddenly switched to Chinese.
Then, decisively drew the husband and wife's lungs and made a mistake...
Interestingly, if you force it to use "Chinese translation" to draw, the result is correct.
A simple Google search shows that "a dish of sliced beef and ox tripe in chili sauce" should be the English translation of couple's lung slices.
However, in the "Chinese" mode, the heavy traffic can still be handled more easily.
Although I don’t know the mechanism behind this for the time being, after a lot of trials, the editor found that as long as the command “draw a bus” is entered, Bing will automatically switch to the correct “Chinese translation” after generating “a bus”. English" mode.
Plug-in system: search engine version "App Store"
In addition to the drawing function that everyone is most curious about, the biggest highlight of this update must be the support for the plug-in system.
After all, we’ve already seen chatbots powered by GPT-4, but there’s a vast space for plugins that developers have brainstormed.
Plug-in ecology is also the future of Bing.
It is reported that Microsoft is currently cooperating with OpenTable to improve the plug-in function of meal ordering.
And, it's not just about ordering food.
Microsoft said that in the future, it will create a platform for developers, allowing more developers to participate in the construction of plug-ins. At that time, Bing will really be omnipotent.
You know, when ChatGPT first came out, plug-ins with various functions were the most anticipated part of the majority of users. Developers are also racking their brains to try various plug-ins.
OpenAI has also been constantly exploring how to make plug-ins available to more users. From the small user experience at the beginning to the increasingly large-scale access to plug-ins, we can see how important it is to create a community where users interact with AI.
Naturally, Microsoft's focus will also be here.
More features will be released in this month's Microsoft Build (May 23/24).
It seems that the browser is also ushering in the App Store era! !
Web search & history extraction
From the chat function, the biggest breakthrough of Bing this time may be the ability to browse the web freely and retrieve the required information.
Now users no longer need to open one web page after another by themselves.
For example, if I want to eat a bowl of old Beijing authentic stewed food (for example), I just need to tell Bing about my needs, and it will be able to search the Internet for which stewed food is delicious, and then directly push the ordering interface to the user.
Even, according to the time I want, I can directly complete the order for me.
And all of this is done directly in the chat interface.
For another example, if I want to watch a movie, I don't have to search for it myself. I just tell Bing the movie I want to watch, and Bing can automatically retrieve the movie.
Microsoft revealed that they will explore the multi-modal search function on Bing in the future. In the future, if you want to search content accurately based on pictures, users only need to upload pictures directly on the Edge browser.
The rest is handed over to the big model for visual recognition, and then you can quickly search for relevant web pages.
In addition to retrieving web pages, Microsoft has also launched a major feature, that is, historical information retrieval.
To put it simply, whenever you chat with Bing, and you want to ask related things later, Bing can remember it, and you only need to click on the chat record.
Moreover, all the generated content can be exported with one click, and it is not too convenient to copy to Word.
Deep integration of Edge browser
At the same time, in terms of the cleanliness of the interface, the new Bing is also full. Open Bing in the Edge browser, and the chat content will automatically move to the right sidebar.
This way we can ask questions while looking at the page.
In addition, content on Edge web pages and Bing can also interact. Here is a very useful feature-smart summary.
When we browse the Edge webpage and open Bing, we can automatically read PDF documents and long websites. Bing can automatically extract key points, abstracts, and generate core content for us to read.
Friends who are engaged in scientific research, imagine that facing a paper on Arxiv with dozens of pages at every turn, do you really need such a function to reduce the workload!
Networked version of GPT-4, experience epic upgrade
Some time ago, OpenAI quietly released the networked version of GPT-3.5. Although the name has changed, the experience of using it is the same.
However, what I never expected was that in the past few days, OpenAI even connected GPT-4 to the Internet!
It is no exaggeration to say that the user experience is an epic improvement compared to the previous GPT-3.5.
For example, we asked the networked version of GPT-4 about the latest news on Bing Chat.
After a few clicks, not only the key points are outlined, but the news links used are also quite reliable.
In contrast, the networked version of GPT-3.5 is very verbose.
(The following is only an excerpt of less than half of the actual generated answer)
However, after all, it is only an Alpha version at present, and the results of the networked version of GPT-4 still need to be improved.
For example, the same question as before.
It can be seen that the model will be interrupted after outputting a certain number of words. Although GPT-4 will search online again at this time, there will be obvious mismatches in the logic and quality of these newly generated content.
"Microsoft" universe
How popular is Microsoft’s ChatGPT version of the search engine? Just look at the data——
Since the launch of Bing Chat, an AI chat robot powered by GPT-4 and DALL-E 2, in February, Bing users, whose daily activities have exceeded 100 million, have participated in more than 500 million chats and created more than 200 million pictures.
In this regard, Nvidia's Jim Fan also quickly commented on Microsoft's heavy update.
He said he was surprised by Microsoft's speed. Although there is no fanfare to promote, this does not affect the explosion of the content.
Jim Fan believes that the new Bing is not just a product, but more like an ecology. At the same time, the competition between Microsoft and OpenAI is slowly heating up.
For example, Bing's move to open third-party plug-ins is equivalent to directly challenging ChatGPT's app store. And because of the perfect integration of Bing and Edge, various operations are more natural.
At the same time, Microsoft has also moved towards multi-modal search. Bing can easily generate pictures, visualize the search results, and make the vision richer: not only pictures, videos, but also charts and so on.
Of course, the new Bing also includes more small features to optimize the user experience. Still, it remains to be seen how the OpenAI-Microsoft rivalry will ultimately play out.
References:
https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/04/microsoft-doubles-down-on-ai-with-new-bing-features/
https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2023/05/04/announcing-the-next-wave-of-ai-innovation-with-microsoft-bing-and-edge/
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