Microsoft is putting as of today the bing chatbot supported in GPT-4 available to everyone, so the waiting list should start to be eliminated officially. From now on, the only requirement to access is to log in with a Microsoft account in the Edge browser or in the mobile application to access the still previous version of the chatbot, which is constantly being fed with new features by the giant. of Redmond.
Microsoft launched a closed previous version last February, which has been gradually opening up to the moment that concerns us in this post. In fact, it seemed that the corporation had de facto eliminated the waiting list two months ago, but at an official level it did not communicate anything about it.
Microsoft says there are currently about 100 million active Bing chat users who have started more than 500 million conversations. It also says that daily installs of the Bing mobile app have quadrupled since it first introduced Bing Chat.
The Redmond giant has announced that is working on features like saving conversations to allow users to stop a conversation to pick it up later, for a more personalized experience incorporating aspects such as context and other features such as various ways of exporting and sharing conversations. On the other hand, we cannot forget about things like image generation.
The relationship of the Microsoft Edge browser with Bing seems to be modified in the near future as the company explains: “Edge Mobile will also include page context soon, so you can ask questions in Bing chat related to the mobile page what are you seeing. The sidebar compose feature can now also customize drafts based on the responses you provide, such as tone, length, wording, and more.”
Other features that Microsoft is working on is the employ artificial intelligence to complete more tasks, such as Edge finding the actions to take and displaying the options in the chat if the user wants to watch a particular movie. This is in addition to a restaurant reservation mechanism powered by OpenTable, the creation of visualizations with Wolfram|Alpha, and answers to complex science and math questions directly from Bing chat. The corporation is also putting safeguards in place to make sure its artificial intelligence tools are being used ethically.
However, Possibly the most interesting part is the support for plugins from third parties, about which it is expected to know more at the next Build 2023 conference that Microsoft organizes mainly for developers and that will be held on May 23 and 24. Support for plugins can be the mainstay that takes the Bing chatbot to new horizons to expand it for good.
As we can see, Microsoft is clear about it in its commitment to include artificial intelligence in Bing, which we will see how far it goes when the company has managed to implement all the features it has in mind.
