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I am on the waitlist for Bing and can't check directly--would it also answer specific questions about the doc? (Rather than summarize.) Our site is meant for Q

I am on the waitlist for Bing and can't check directly--would it also answer specific questions about the doc? (Rather than summarize.) Our site is meant for Q&A, and has a layer of tech that finds the sections in the large document that are relevant to the Q first. This will not work well in general for summarization on unstructured content. But most content tends to be structured and in practice we are finding that the approach still works on e.g. news articles, wikipedia articles, blog posts. It's almost as if where it doesn't work, a human would have trouble too. (e.g., on a long rambling HN thread).

carrolldunham 4y ago
>would it also answer specific questions about the doc? Yes.
maven29 4y ago
There is no waitlist anymore, and this functionality is delivered through the Bing sidebar. Internally, it has the same privileges as a third party extension with webpage content access, so it cannot access the pdf viewer contents. I believe Edge is getting a new PDF viewer in Canary that might solve this. For now, you can select text 2000 characters at a time and send to chat or give it a URL (assuming that Bing can see it in the search index). Bing chat is already good at handling recursive queries (with internet access) and processing poorly formatted PDFs from the indexer webcache, so I assume it would do well given the right conditions. It does Q&A really well on GitHub repositories, for example.