Why Bing Chat is ChatGPT on steroids
Microsoft has played a trump card to try to dethrone Google. Bing Chat surprised me even more than ChatGPT, but I fear it is not ready to be released to the public.
Microsoft Bing has long been a target of ridicule on the internet, mainly because of its small market share compared with the absolute dominance of Google – for most people, the Web’s default home page since the late 90s.
For me too, for a long time, Bing had a status similar to that of Internet Explorer, the browser that became a meme for its slowness before it was discontinued. At the end of 2020, after trying Bing with a more open mind, I admitted here that Microsoft’s search engine was far more advanced than I had thought.
AI translation from the Portuguese. First published in ECO on 24 February 2023.