Yikes! The New Bing

[mfleming]

Well I guess we all saw it coming. The Bing search engine is now that chat daemon. I for one welcome our AI overlords

[Jeff_Birt]

Seems to work the same for me...maybe you have the ask the correct question before magic AI kicks in? Guessing it is mostly marketing drivel.

[BillBee]

(02-08-2023 12:03 PM)mfleming Wrote:  Well I guess we all saw it coming. The Bing search engine is now that chat daemon. I for one welcome our AI overlords

IT is refreshing.

Rumor has it that one can order a fresh Soylent Green sandwich via Chat now.

-Bill

[Eric Rechlin]

(02-08-2023 02:28 PM)Jeff_Birt Wrote:  Seems to work the same for me...maybe you have the ask the correct question before magic AI kicks in? Guessing it is mostly marketing drivel.

It's not fully public yet. You have to sign up for the waitlist, and at some point they will give your account access to the new AI bot. I signed up yesterday, so we'll see how long it takes.

[KeithB]

(02-08-2023 08:14 PM)BillBee Wrote:  Rumor has it that one can order a fresh Soylent Green sandwich via Chat now.

-Bill

Is that like fresh frozen fish?
My Cred: I saw the movie when it came out in theaters!

[EugeneNine]

I think the real question would be why were you part of the 0.00000000001% of people who even try to use Bing.

[Jeff_Birt]

(02-08-2023 09:14 PM)EugeneNine Wrote:  I think the real question would be why were you part of the 0.00000000001% of people who even try to use Bing.

I use it every day, much preferred over Google. Less of my life stored on Google servers that way too. I do try a search on Google on occasion but don't find anything I did not find with Bing.

[EugeneNine]

(02-08-2023 09:25 PM)Jeff_Birt Wrote:  

(02-08-2023 09:14 PM)EugeneNine Wrote:  I think the real question would be why were you part of the 0.00000000001% of people who even try to use Bing.

I use it every day, much preferred over Google. Less of my life stored on Google servers that way too. I do try a search on Google on occasion but don't find anything I did not find with Bing.

Having your info stored on Microsoft servers isn't any better.
There are plenty of search engines that actually work and are not Google
It took several years of cleaning malware off of my parents pc before I finally got them to quit using the msn/bing garbage. Microsoft not only stores and tracks just like google but also allows malware in their ads.

[mfleming]

(02-08-2023 09:14 PM)EugeneNine Wrote:  I think the real question would be why were you part of the 0.00000000001% of people who even try to use Bing.

So ads don't follow me around the internets every time I do a Google search?

[EugeneNine]

(02-08-2023 10:44 PM)mfleming Wrote:  

(02-08-2023 09:14 PM)EugeneNine Wrote:  I think the real question would be why were you part of the 0.00000000001% of people who even try to use Bing.

So ads don't follow me around the internets every time I do a Google search?

This is what I fail to understand. So you don't want Google's ads following you but Microsoft's ads are OK? And Microsoft's ad partners who install spyware via Bing ads are ok? And Microsoft falsely accusing other companies of abuse while abusing is OK?

There are plenty of non Google/Bing/Yahoo search engines that don't do the crap they do. But its reallt annoying to see people have issues with Google but then use a worse company like Microsoft.

[EdS2]

(It doesn't feel wise to me, to be annoyed by someone else's preferences.)

[mfleming]

(02-08-2023 02:28 PM)Jeff_Birt Wrote:  Seems to work the same for me...maybe you have the ask the correct question before magic AI kicks in? Guessing it is mostly marketing drivel.

I've found it to provide more useful responses to highly technical questions, i.e. "Where can I find Verilog sources for an SPI master?" than keyword driven search engines. Google, old Bing, DuckDuckGo, etc. just seem to return references that have one or more of the nouns stripped from the query.

I'd consider that an improvement.

[Valentin Albillo]

(02-08-2023 12:03 PM)mfleming Wrote:  Well I guess we all saw it coming. The Bing search engine is now that chat daemon. I for one welcome our AI overlords

Have a look at this recent The New York Times article:

A Conversation With Bing’s Chatbot Left Me Deeply Unsettled

Full conversation transcript

Edit: this is also worth a look:

From Bing to Sidney

V.

[johanw]

(02-08-2023 10:44 PM)mfleming Wrote:  So ads don't follow me around the internets every time I do a Google search?

You mean you're not using an adblocker?