Bing becomes ChatGPT’s default search engine 🔍🤖

Cliquez ici pour lire en français

ChatGPT will soon be more powerful than ever. Until now, the AI developed by OpenAI has relied on a database limited to the year 2021 to answer user queries. In an ever-changing world, this can leave it out in front of more present competitors.

But this is about to change, thanks to a strengthened partnership between OpenAI and Microsoft, announced at the Build 2023 conference. Microsoft revealed that Bing, its search engine, would now be the default search engine for ChatGPT.

ChatGPT and Bing: what a tech duo!🤩

Integrating Bing into ChatGPT? What does this mean in concrete terms? What’s behind this duo? These are questions we’re all asking ourselves. TechGriot answers them by telling you that ChatGPT will now be able to access the web to enrich its answers, based on Bing’s meticulous results. Ingenious😊

Source: Bing

In this way, the AI will be able to provide faster, more up-to-date answers, with quotes to deepen the information. Between answers and sources of generated answers, we’re taking it up a notch.

The integration of Bing into ChatGPT represents both a victory and an opportunity.

• A victory ✌🏾: It’s no secret that Microsoft’s search engine is struggling to compete with Google in the online search market. Bing is taking advantage of the growing popularity of ChatGPT, which now attracts over 100 million daily active users, in the hope of securing the loyalty of ChatGPT users to its ecosystem. What’s more, the addition of Bing to ChatGPT is also good news for information verification.
• An opportunity ⭐: This announcement represents an opportunity for Bing to benefit from interesting visibility in its competition with Google.

When interoperability rhymes with plugins on ChatGPT!😎

This new experience is available to subscribers of ChatGPT Plus, the AI’s paid-for and available offering. ChatGPT Plus provides access to additional features such as navigation, personalization and, more recently, plugins.

Free users will also be able to take advantage of Bing’s integration with ChatGPT, but will need to activate a plugin, available in the coming weeks.

Microsoft and OpenAI claim that this integration respects user privacy, and that data exchanged between Bing and ChatGPT is encrypted and anonymized. They also assure that ChatGPT respects the ethical principles of AI and does not generate harmful or misleading content. However, they urge users to think critically and check the sources of information provided by the chatbot.

Microsoft also took advantage of its event to announce the arrival of plugins within Bing Chat and its Copilot personal assistant in Windows. This announcement marks a further strengthening of the partnership between Microsoft and OpenAI, which began in 2019. Indeed, the Redmond firm is committed to using the same open plug-in standard as OpenAI, making it possible for extensions to ChatGPT, Bing Chat and Microsoft Copilot to be interoperable.

Developers can now use a single platform to create plugins compatible with both consumer and business interfaces, including ChatGPT, Bing, Dynamics 365 Copilot and Microsoft 365 Copilot.

As part of this « shared plug-in platform », Bing Chat will be offering ChatGPT-supported extensions such as Expedia, Instacart, Kayak, Klarna, TripAdvisor and Zillow directly in chat over the coming weeks. These plugins will generate recommendations based on conversations.

What do you think of this integration?

Sources: Microsoft, Bing