- Write me a script for a video
about Microsoft's new AI-powered Bing interface.
- [AI And Presenter] Welcome to this video
where we will show you.
- [AI] How Microsoft's new AI-powered Bing interface
can make your online search experience faster,
smarter, and more personalized.
- Okay, well, I guess my work here is done.
I'll let Bing take over from now.
(upbeat music)
I'll save you the time.
What you've just seen is Microsoft's new AI-powered version
of Bing that's here to take on Google's search dominance.
Microsoft is now bringing a next generation GPT model
to its Bing search engine that it's confident
will transform search as we know it today.
So why is this different to ChatGPT and what's new?
First up, Microsoft is putting answers
to queries side by side
with the search results you're used to seeing today.
They're called chat answers and it's the type
of response you'd find in ChatGPT.
You'll get the usual links followed
by more conversational response at the side.
That's neat and it will ease people gently
into this new AI-powered search
but it's the chat interface that's really interesting.
ChatGPT has wowed the web
with its impressive ability to naturally respond to queries,
write poems, organize people's lives and much more.
Bing's AI features are based
on a more advanced version of what powers ChatGPT.
That means it can do things like surface breaking news
and relevant information as it's happening,
and it can also do stuff like organize a free day vacation
to New York City for you and your family when it's warm.
The main chat interface is very similar to ChatGPT
but it searches news sources with surprising speed
for events that are unfolding or that have just happened.
This is all super speedy
but much like ChatGPT, it's not always accurate.
Earlier today I asked it about a bunch of queries
and one of them was related to a breaking news incident
and it gave me the date for tomorrow instead of today.
But it's not just news it can cover and search queries.
Microsoft says it's AI-powered Bing
should be better at writing code than ChatGPT.
I'm not a coder, so I'll leave that up
to the prompt engineering experts
to really test Microsoft promises there.
The big differences can be found
in how Microsoft has integrated these chatbot powers
into its Edge browser.
And I think this is where the future
of Microsoft's OpenAI partnership gets really interesting.
Edge now has a sidebar which can scan entire webpages
and allow you to pick out information
or run chat queries against websites.
Now imagine you're on Amazon and searching for a TV.
You could ask Bing to compare the best 4K TVs,
find the best price, and then formulate this all
into a neat table that you can email to your partner.
There's even a compose tab that makes all the work
of typing in parameters a little bit easier,
offering a GUI for tone, format and length.
You can ask Bing's AI model to write about anything here
and it'll neatly format it and get it ready
for a blog post, an email, or just a simple list.
Microsoft didn't talk about this on stage today
but you can imagine a future where Word
or Outlook could just generating documents
or emails for you automatically.
You could technically do this right now.
Just open up a web-based version of Word,
put it alongside this little sidebar in Edge,
and then it's generating content for you on the fly.
Here's the resignation letter I just created
for my boss to say I'm resigning
because AI is replacing my job.
(pensive music)
All of these new features look great and the possibilities
are almost endless, but there'll be thousands of people
out there looking to break this new Bing AI,
much in the same way as people jailbreak ChatGPT
and make it say bad things.
Microsoft says it has some additional safeguards
in place to protect against this, but we'll see
how long it takes for the prompt engineers to break past.
It will also be interesting to see how publishers
and content owners react to this.
The chat answers are more advanced
than the simple query answers that we see
in search engines today, and it's clear
that people will click on links less,
even if Bing is clearly sourcing information here.
Microsoft is going to open up a whole bunch
of conversations around content, regulatory risks,
legal issues, and much more.
We've already seen Getty suing
some image generation companies,
and we're just at the beginning of how this type
of AI will reshape online content.
Overshadowing all of this is Google and exactly
how the search giant will respond.
Microsoft is clearly trying to take away
search engine market share
from Google and make Bing more relevant.
Nilay sat down with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella
for the Decoder podcast.
We have the full interview up on the channel,
but here's what he had to say. - First of all, I mean, look,
I have the greatest of admirations
for Google and what they've done
and they're an unbelievable company with great talent
and I have a lot of respect for Sundar and his teams.
They're the 800-pound gorilla on this,
which is what they are, and I hope that with our innovation,
they will definitely wanna come out
and show that they can dance.
And I want people to know that we made them dance
and I think that'll be a great day.
- And Google is gonna be dancing real soon.
Just the day before Microsoft's event
Google announced its ChatGPT competitor Bard.
It's in limited testing right now
and we haven't seen exactly how it handles queries
or how Google will attempt to integrate it into search
but it's clear the AI search battle is on.
If you thought ChatGPT was interesting,
things are about to shift up a gear.
Like I said earlier, the full Satya Nadella interview
is up on the channel, so go check that out.
But if we're gonna end this the way that Bing wanted us to,
thanks for watching and happy searching.