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What is Microsofts vision with Bing? It looks like it is slowly transitioning from a search engine to something else.
by Alifatisk 3y ago
What is Microsofts vision with Bing? It looks like it is slowly transitioning from a search engine to something else.
- shlubbert 3y agoProbably another shot at some kind of universal AI assistant since Cortana didn't really take off.
- pixl97 3y agoThey wasted the Cortana name too early. I believe if LLMs are when the Cortana namesake was first used, it would likely stick.
- kaetemi 3y agoIt's quite entertaining and seamless to interact with either way.
- oezi 3y agoBing's AI capabilities are just testing grounds for their Office 365 integration.
- zamadatix 3y agoI think they are banking on generative AI displacing traditional search of all types, maybe opening a few new related doors but mostly displacing large use cases of search. "Better enough than Google to convince users to switch" was always too high a bar to meet but being able to say "How do I take the Riemann middle sum using the points {1/2, 1, 3/2, 2} for f(x)=x^3+2" and getting a response built around your specific question instead of the best generic link talking about Riemann sums is definitely the strongest contender I've seen to finally meeting that bar. Users don't want to find the best page about Riemann sums, they just want an answer to their question. The challenge will be "does it do that well enough, accurately enough, and keep a good enough lead to establish itself as the leader to beat for the user base".