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I was just saying the same thing to my wife today. I expected Bing Chat to be great - it's GPT-4, but then it can also use the internet to fill in gaps in its

I was just saying the same thing to my wife today. I expected Bing Chat to be great - it's GPT-4, but then it can also use the internet to fill in gaps in its knowledge. But instead all it generally does is summarize your question into a web search, and then summarize the results back to you. As you said, I generally feel like I could do that better myself. I generally find the results from ChatGPT/GPT-4 to be much more useful. Of course, the downside, and the reason why I presume Bing went that way, is that the ChatGPT results are unsourced, and indeed, are more likely to be hallucinated. But they're also far more likely to be useful! I'm very much looking forward to trying out the new web plugin for ChatGPT; I hope it will work like I had expected Bing Chat to—basically GPT-4, with an added ability to search the web and incorporate results into its answers, but without being limited to only doing that.

feintruled 3y ago
Yes, also it's funny how we anthromorphise these things but Bing seems so cold and prickly. The emojis seem insincere, and it will slap you down with immediately if you say something it doesn't like. The conversation countdown doesn't help either, like you're on the clock. But there's also a subtler issue with that summarisation technique it's hard to put your finger on.
- midoridensha 3y ago
  >but Bing seems so cold and prickly. The emojis seem insincere, and it will slap you down with immediately if you say something it doesn't like. It's a product of Microsoft, so of course they're going to add their corporate values to it.