The new Bing which has integrated ChatGPT, this conversational tool which is so much talked about, allows Microsoft’s search engine to post a new record.
An effect of curiosity which should however fade over the weeks.
Bing passes the 100 million mark!
A few weeks ago, Microsoft unveiled the brand new version of its AI-powered Bing search engine. The latest version of Windows 11 also gives pride of place to this new Bing under ChatGPT, with a dedicated icon in the search field of the taskbar, which can now be entered.
This novelty concerning Bing obviously aroused the curiosity of many Internet users, who had already registered en masse on the waiting list allowing them to test this new version as a priority.
On its official blog, Microsoft indicates through Yusuf Mehdi: “ We are pleased to announce that after several years of steady progress, and with a small boost of more than one million new Bing users in preview, we have reached the milestone of 100 million users. Bing daily assets. »
AI to the rescue (from Bing)
A dazzling progression, caused in large part by this new version, since Yusuf Mehdi indicated that a third of daily active users of Bing were discovering the search engine for the first time. A pioneering side that has caused real curiosity among Internet users, but which should however fade as the competition also deploys similar functions.
On average, Microsoft says it saves about three chats per session, with more than 45 million chats initiated since the introduction of the new Bing. This new trend of search engines that integrate AI is not unique to Microsoft, since Brave also gives pride of place to a chatbot called “Summarizer”, which appears at the top of the results page following a query.
A month ago, another web giant, namely Google, officially announced its response to ChatGPT, with “Bard”. This new AI will be powered by the Language Model for Dialogue Applications (LaMDA). The latter will allow, for example, the Internet user to formulate requests of the type ” between the piano and the guitar, which is the most difficult instrument to learn, and how long does it take to learn them? »
The AI will then take care of providing a first response, before sending the user to various links to deepen his analysis.
Source : Engadget
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