​Microsoft has officially announced its participation in the “race” of artificial intelligence in online search and is integrating ChatGPT chatbot technology into the Bing search engine. Users will be able to ask specific things and receive appropriate answers. Google recently announced that it will open public access to a chatbot called Bard.

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Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, says that we are facing a significant moment in the history of the Internet, explaining that this technology will change the interaction with different software for the better. Nadella says this moment can be attributed to an important chapter in the history of technology, along with the appearance of the first web browsers and mobile gadgets.

Users will be able to ask more complex questions and get direct answers, but for a while only a small number of people will be able to experience the technology in the Edge browser. Obviously, the answers will improve over time.

Microsoft talked about the “new Bing”, that is, about the new Bing search engine, which will change thanks to the advent of this technology, which will allow direct “discussions” and answers to the object of many types of questions.

It remains to be seen how Bing will perform and whether queries will lead to useful answers. The big difference with the famous ChatGPT is that Bing will have access to the Internet and will also be able to answer current questions.

It is clear that the answers to some questions of the “new Bing”, although grammatically sound, will have factual errors, and this was also proven by the first American journalists who tested it. This aspect will be worked on as it is sensitive for any company launching a chatbot to the general public.

In January, the Microsoft boss said he plans to integrate AI programs like ChatGPT into all of the company’s products. Microsoft has invested and will continue to invest in OpenAI, the company that developed the much talked about chatbot at the end of 2022.

ChatGPT has been “trained” on massive amounts of data, but does NOT have real-time internet access and information newer than the second half of 2021.

Representatives of OpenAI, the company that developed it, say that the chatbot does not always give the right answers, and advise to verify any information and not take it for granted.