Bing AI chatbot is about to get two much-wanted features

Date:
Wed, 19 Jul 2023 11:44:29 +0000

Description:
Image searching is arriving for everyone imminently, and dark mode for Bing
AI shouldnt be far behind.

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Bing AI is getting a couple of the most-wanted features folks have been badgering Microsoft for, with image search rolling out to everyone
imminently, and dark mode shouldnt be too far behind that.

These nuggets of info come from Mikhail Parakhin, Microsofts head of Advertising and Web Services, who shared the details in a couple of tweets. OK, we have finally rolled out the Multimodal/Image understanding everywhere (well, almost - the rollout will fully be done tomorrow, but 99% today). pic.twitter.com/CIuGIXQNSK July 18, 2023 See more

Were told that multimodal/image understanding is rolling out to everyone, meaning the ability to drop an image into the chatbot and have it identify
the photo (whatever it may be a famous building, for example).

Also known as Visual Search (or Bing Vision), Microsoft just penned a blog post on this noting that its rolling out now for consumers on Bing desktop
and the mobile app.

As you can see from Parakhins tweet, Visual Search should be fully rolled out as of today, so you should see the feature later on at some point, if you
dont already.

In the replies to the above highlighted Twitter conversation, Parakhin
further tweeted about a second piece of functionality for Bing AI that folks have been clamoring for with even greater eagerness than image searching, in some cases.

That would be dark mode, and were told that this capability should arrive for Bing AI in a couple of weeks, so hopefully pretty soon indeed. Analysis: Dark times are coming or maybe already here?

There has been a lot of prodding and poking of Microsoft about providing a dark mode for Bing AI, so its great to see this arrive. Interestingly, some users are already reporting that they have dark mode so perhaps we can
expect this very soon for the chatbot, hot on the heels of the full rollout
of Visual Search.

Microsoft is making fast progress with its Bing AI, with various nifty bits
of functionality coming in at a good pace. Another much-requested feature thats due to arrive in the near future is a no search option thatll come in handy in certain situations . (This forces an answer direct from the AI, without it scraping data from the web as part of its reply to a query).

Bing AI needs Microsoft to continue driving forward, mind you, as Bard, the rival AI from Google, might have got off to a poor start, but its rapidly making up ground with new features now. With Bard set to get extensions brought into the mix soon , there may be some defectors to Googles AI something Microsoft will clearly be desperate to avoid.

However, what Microsoft needs to be careful about, of course, is annoying folks by doing its usual badgering tricks in Windows 11 to try and get people to use the AI (and other services for that matter).



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Link to news story: https://www.techradar.com/computing/artificial-intelligence/bing-ai-chatbot-is -about-to-get-two-much-wanted-features


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