From PC Mag: Microsoft is releasing its own version of AI-powered summaries for its search engine, Bing, the company announced Wednesday.
Bing's generative search feature is only being enabled on a small, predetermined selection of specific web searches to start, like "what is a spaghetti western" and "how long do elephants live." When enabled, Bing produces a large block of AI-generated text along with its sources. Text that has been pulled from a specific site can be clicked on to direct the user to that source material webpage directly.
"This new experience combines the foundation of Bing’s search results with the power of large and small language models (LLMs and SLMs). It understands the search query, reviews millions of sources of information, dynamically matches content, and generates search results in a new AI-generated layout to fulfill the intent of the user’s query more effectively," Microsoft's post states.
Regular Bing web search results appear on the right site of the AI text as well as below it. Like Google Search's AI Overviews, Bing's AI search also give users the option to upvote or downvote an AI's work. But Microsoft Bing's feedback buttons are more visible and appear at the top of the AI section, while Google's AI Overviews have their upvote or downvote buttons hidden beneath an expandable section that has to be clicked on by the user to be seen.
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