A MERE MONTH after investing $10 billion in OpenAI—the developer of DALL-E and ChatGPT—Microsoft has added an AI chatbot to Bing and has plans to add it to a Sidebar in its Edge browser too. Currently, the new AI Bing is available as a limited preview, which illustrates it at work on a dozen example questions. You can also join a waiting list for fuller access.
It can write poems, help plan holidays, write code, and make a pretty good attempt at intelligent conversation. It’s eerie. The Bing version has been customized for search results, enabling you to easily refine your criteria, saving you from wading through too many answers.