Microsoft's Bing Chat AI is Now Open To Everyone, With Plug-ins Coming Soon (theverge.com) 30
Microsoft is making its Bing GPT-4 chatbot available to everyone today, no more waitlist necessary. From a report: All you need to do is sign in to the new Bing or Edge with your Microsoft account, and you'll now access the open preview version that's powered by GPT-4. Microsoft is also massively upgrading Bing Chat with lots of new features and even plug-in support. Microsoft is now adding more smart features to Bing Chat, including image and video results, new Bing and Edge Actions feature, persistent chat and history, and plug-in support. The plug-in support will be the key addition for developers and for the future of Bing Chat.
Everyone (Score:5, Insightful)
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"All you need to do is sign in to the new Bing or Edge with your Microsoft account" - no thanks.
You mean it does not "offer" to upgrade a non-Windows user to Bing or Edge and Windoze 11? How lame is that!! /s
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To use the beta so far you have had to either use Edge or spoof your browser headers.
Antitrust lawyers would have had a field day with behavior like this prior to the complete regulatory capture of our government by private corporations.
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Regulation always favors the larger corporation who can 1) Afford to comply, ,2) Lobby congress for legal protections, 3) Squash Competition using Lawyers to sue anyone that looks at them funny.
The legal system favors the one who can afford to use it.
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And most of that is because of Outlook and Teams
https://tech.slashdot.org/stor... [slashdot.org]
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To use the beta so far you have had to either use Edge or spoof your browser headers.
You still do.
I tried spoofing as Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/114.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/114.0.1788.0 but Opera seems to like adding its own OPR/99 on the end. Whether it's this or not, Bing AI won't work on Opera.
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I see you are logged in to your slashdot account, since your post is attributed to you. Do you consider that safer than logging in to a Microsoft account?
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That's very interesting! Slashdot pages are chock full of links to marketing companies and other privacy-leaking integrations. Relatively few people have heard of slashdot, so they can get away with doing what they want, with less scrutiny from the news media. Microsoft, on the other hand, is always being scrutinized by the media and other security researchers. I'm personally much more comfortable with Microsoft having my info, than Slashdot. On the other hand, I'm perhaps more promiscuous with my data than
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Tried it (Score:3)
It's useless, it can't even solve any problems that ChatGPT 3.5 handled with aplomb.
People do not search for webpages containing the data they want anymore, they want the AI to pull out the data and combine it from hundreds of places.
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People do not search for webpages containing the data they want anymore, they want the AI to pull out the data and combine it from hundreds of places.
That would be fantastic, if it could actually do it, and cite exactly where it got each fact from. However, last time I asked ChatGPT a question (not about politics), it injected the fact that Hillary Clinton won the election and had been President. And then it absolutely fabricated some sources to back it up.
Re:Tried it (Score:4, Interesting)
The problem with Bing, is that microsofts hamfisted RHLF training basically lobotomized it. They are so freaked out by the prostpect of someone having a conversation with it that isnt "Where can I buy microsoft accessories!" that it just shuts down and refuses at the slightest hint of anything that might not appease the corporate overlord.
But the model underneath it, GPT4 , is astonishingly clever, if you've ever used it on OpenAIs site. Its ... people like to bang on that its just a stochastic parrot, but really, this thing defies belief sometimes what it comes out with.
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"Specifically, according to the report [stanford.edu], Bing returns disinformation, conspiracy theories, and white supremacist content at an alarming rate."
Or this: Microsoft lobotomized AI-powered Bing" [arstechnica.com]
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While I find ChatGPT to be superior in a general sense, there's no getting away from the fact it lives in 2021. I understand ChatGPT premium/GPT-4 supports plugins to alleviate this issue, but Bing does current content for free. I find it far from useless, even inferior as it is. I use ChatGPT when I can, and Bing when I need the result to come from recent sources. It does OK. Not great, but OK.
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I'm curious what kinds of things the Bing version can't do, that ChatGPT can. So far, I've found the functionality to be pretty much equivalent.
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"I'm curious what kinds of things the Bing version can't do, that ChatGPT can."
I asked:
"Please give me a list of all the European countries who have a system to issue real passports (not temp ones for a single voyage) in an emergency. Just a list of the County, the time needed and the extra fee."
ChatgPT3.5 gave me exactly what I asked, too long to paste here.
Albania: 24 hours, fee varies
Andorra: 24-48 hours, €82-€170
Austria: 2-3 days, €75-€135
Belarus: 24-48 hours, fee varies
Belgium: 1-2
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Interesting, thanks!
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Interesting is the part:
"in the UK, you can get an emergency travel document within 24 hours for £1001."
A bit steep IMO.
Requires Edge (Score:3)
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Bing's search results helpfully list a workaround - change your browser's User Agent to Edge.
Oh my, I thought hacking user agents was a twentieth century thing.
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Like most web developers, I have to use all the major browsers anyway, so...why not Edge for something that gives me a great tool?
To me, there's does not exist a truly "virtuous" browser, they all engage in exactly the same shenanigans.
seems useful (Score:3)
I asked it to write a complete chrome extension to my spec. It produced one, which looks reasonable, but I haven't tested it yet. It also claimed that it had not copied it from another place and told me the difference between the one it produced and another one with similar functionality that is broken, which I asked it about.
So, yeah, it may not be able to solve any outstanding problems in number theory, but it is useful. Since I know about 2% of what it takes to write such an extension, it saved me A LOT of time. The critical thing being which 5 or so features to take advantage of.
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Absolutely. I haven't tried anything this big, but I have thrown a number of C# and SQL tasks at it, especially more obscure things I'd otherwise have to search for on Stack Overflow.
It has done well with requests like:
- Write a C# function using Dapper to execute a stored procedure
- Write a SQL query to list all databases on a server, with the size of each in GB
- What is the CSS selector to find all elements that have a class called 'selected' but do not have a class called 'excluded'
- In Javascript, how d
Inaccurate (Score:2)
I have used it a few times to "search" for information, and it simply cannot be trusted. I was trying to find the name of some old arcade games, based on descriptions of the gameplay. After a few results that weren't what I was looking for, it began returning fabricated results. One result (the name of an arcade game) even included two sources - one was a Wikipedia page listing games, and another was a website that had a top-ten list of arcade games. Neither of the pages contained anything about the that ar