Microsoft is trying to make it easier to share your experiences with its GPT-4-powered Bing Chat by adding a button that lets you post the AI response to Facebook, Twitter, or Pinterest. People have already been sharing the interesting (and sometimes annoying) things the chatbot has been saying via screenshots, but it seems Microsoft is leaning into that now. Maybe that’s a sign that he’s more confident in all the barriers he’s put up around the system after users pushed it to the breaking point.
In a blog post on friday, the company shows the share button and says that you can use it to generate a persistent link to the answer in addition to sharing it on social media. Clicking on the link takes you to a Bing Chat window, where you’ll fill in the response you gave to the person who shared it, complete with citations. You can even keep track of the other person’s response. I followed a link to an answer on meal ideasshe asked for vegan versions of those meals, and she gave them to me.
If you want the full experience, it looks like you need to open the link in Edge and sign in to a Microsoft account that has access to the Bing Chat preview. (Theoretically, the company still uses a waitlist system, but it seems to let people in immediately when they click the “join waitlist” button.) If you don’t have access to Bing Chat, Edge will still show you the shared chat. respond, and with other browsers like Chrome or Safari, you’ll just see a message telling you to download Edge.
In addition to the share button, Microsoft says it’s testing “an optimization in ‘Balanced’ mode that significantly improves performance” that allows the bot to answer your questions faster. none of the three Edge The staff members who tried it noticed a big difference, but it didn’t seem to lag as much as before.
Microsoft also says it improved Bing’s “contextual understanding” over the past week, allowing it to “absorb a greater amount of context” when using the Creative tone. That should allow you to summarize large amounts of text better than before, according to the blog post.
