Microsoft's Bing Chat AI is Now Open To Everyone, With Plug-ins Coming Soon
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Microsoft's Bing Chat AI is Now Open To Everyone, With Plug-ins Coming Soon
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by RitchCraft ( 6454710 ) on Thursday May 04, 2023 @10:45AM (#63496864)
"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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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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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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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.
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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
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"The problem(s) with Bing..." are too long to list here.
"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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It's a search engine, so it offers a slightly less biased sample of the heavily biased content out there than Stanford would like.
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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 was going to play with it, but definitely not going to use a web page that requires a specific browser. #nope
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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.
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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
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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
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