The Search Engine Part of Bing

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The search engine part of this looks like kind of two products in one. If you search for something on Bing, the left side of the screen is basically the same search experience we're used to. For certain kinds of queries, it starts writing this AI generated thing. The right side of thescreen actually did a sort of GPT style bullet point list where it gave me a menu of things that I could serve at my next vegetarian party.

Microsoft’s release of a ChatGPT-powered Bing signifies a new era in search. Then, a disastrous preview of Bard — Google’s answer to ChatGPT — caused the company’s stocks to slide 7 percent. The A.I. arms race is on.

Plus: What “Nothing, Forever,” the 24/7, A.I.-generated “Seinfeld” parody, says about bias in A.I.

On today’s episode:

Sam Altman is the chief executive of OpenAI.
Kevin Scott is the chief technology officer of Microsoft.

Additional reading:

Microsoft integrated OpenAI's technology into its search engine and kicked off an A.I. arms race.
Google released Bard, a rival chatbot to ChatGPT.
“Nothing, Forever” was temporarily banned on Twitch.