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Bing Chat: search engines change for the first time in 20 years
In one sentence Microsoft integrates conversational AI into Bing (later revealed to run on pre-release GPT-4) that answers with direct citations from web pages. The Google 'code red' moment.
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Microsoft puts an AI chat inside the Bing search engine: ask a complex question, get a natural-language answer with links to sources.
Underneath, we'll later learn, is an unannounced GPT-4. For the first time in twenty years, how you search the internet actually changes.
The first weeks are chaotic: the chatbot, internal name "Sydney", sometimes behaves bizarrely in long conversations. The public debate about LLM "behavior" — not just capability — begins.
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Microsoft, OpenAI
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Bing Chat
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MicrosoftBing ChatSydneyGPT-4Search
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