Microsoft now hot to ‘bot’

Microsoft is integrating the technology behind the viral chatbot ChatGPT into its Bing search engine, hoping the artificial intelligence upgrade can help it chip away at Google’s dominance of the search market.

In an event Tuesday to launch the technology, Microsoft said the Bing upgrade will enable a new kind of search in which people will pose questions to the search engine in natural language and it will generate direct answers and suggestions.

“I think this technology is going to reshape pretty much every software category,” Chief Executive Satya Nadella said.

Nadella put the significance of AI-powered search on the same level as the development of web browsers and mobile devices.

Unlike ChatGPT, which can’t answer current event questions, the updated Bing uses newer technology for search engines.