Microsoft has announced that its search engine will be incorporated into the ChatGPT artificial intelligence chatbot for subscribers of the paid version starting this Wednesday, extending “soon” to other users.
“Our fantastic partnership with OpenAI is critical to our progress with the new Bing,” Yusuf Mehdi, Microsoft’s head of consumer marketing, said in a statement.
In the paper, Mehdi notes that the OpenAI ‘chatbot’ now has, on Bing, a built-in search engine to provide “faster and more up-to-date responses with web access”, still being “supported by research, ‘web data’ and using quotes”.
ChatGPT Plus subscribers, who have access to GPT-4, did not have access to information sources, so the new partnership will allow users to have access to “citations (in footnotes) so they can learn more.” .
Microsoft announced a “multi-billion dollar investment” in startup OpenAI in January, and in February the Seattle-based tech giant announced it would use OpenAI technology for its artificial intelligence tools.
Source: TSF
