TECHWEEK
Announced earlier this month, new features for Microsoft’s Bing generative chatbot are starting to roll out to Bing-enabled mobile apps. Starting today, May 16, users will gradually be able to use advanced tools such as widgets directly from the Bing app itself, automatic text generation and smart translator in the SwiftKey keyboard, and a built-in chatbot for contextual work with web pages in the Edge browser.
In addition, the artificial intelligence system based on the GPT-4 neural network has become much more convenient – now it can respond in several different formats and generally offers more convenient formatting of results.
First of all, it is worth noting, perhaps, the most important innovation: a full-fledged history of communication with Bing has appeared. You can click on the button with the clock icon at the top of the chat on the left and return to recent cases. This way, previous questions asked to the chatbot are no longer deleted permanently after the session ends. In addition, the issue structure has improved – from now on it is not limited to text only and includes a variety of visual content in the form of images, videos, graphs, and even knowledge maps.
Also, the system now saves the history of requests and can respond in several visual content formats
What Bing users on Android and iOS will get in the coming week:
- modern widget design of the main Bing application with quick access to the chatbot, voice search, image search and Microsoft services;
- continuation of a chat with artificial intelligence Bing, started on a computer, in an application on a smartphone and vice versa;
- automatic AI-assisted writing of responses and texts based on a short hint with a choice of topics, style, format and volume in the SwiftKey keyboard;
- smart translator in the SwiftKey keyboard, capable of translating more complex texts and providing better translation;
- a function to rewrite an AI-generated message in a different style (funny or witty) in the SwiftKey keyboard;
- built-in chatbot in the Edge browser with the ability to summarize web page content, provide answers to content-related questions, and search for a highlighted word right through the chatbot interface with no extra steps.
In addition, Bing has officially become globally available to all users of the Skype messenger – AI has been integrated into any group chats. Soon Microsoft will also allow the chatbot to be used in conjunction with third-party plugins, as in the original ChatGPT Plus from OpenAI. Extension developers will be provided with a dedicated platform.
