Microsoft prepares a version of its browser based on OpenIA’s ChatGPT to compete with Google

Microsoft is working to release a version of its Bing search engine using the AI ​​behind the chatbot ChatGPT launched by OpenAI.

The news was published by the specialized media The Information, citing two people with direct knowledge of the company’s plans which, in the field of searches, has been losing ground for years against Google. Indeed, the company that owns the search engine, Alphabet, has issued a warning due to the popularity of ChatGPT.

The company could roll out the new feature by the end of March and hopes to challenge Alphabet’s Google search engine. Microsoft said in a blog post last year that it plans to integrate OpenAI’s imaging software, DALL-E 2, on Bing.

OpenAI made a free public version of its latest creation, ChatGPT, available on November 30th. The chatbot is a software application designed to imitate a human conversation based on user input and to which it can respond a wide range of questions imitating human speech styles.

Despite the versions that have surfaced, both OpenAI and Microsoft have declined to comment on the project.

In 2019, Microsoft backed San Francisco-based artificial intelligence company OpenAI by offering $1 billion in funding. The two had formed a multi-year partnership to develop artificial intelligence supercomputing technologies on Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing service.

What is ChatGPT

“OpenAI is the name of an artificial intelligence research and development laboratory with the explicit goal of making programs available to the general public. We try to prevent a possible existential risk produced by AI from being aggravated by the concentration of these resources in a few companies,” explains Javier Blanco, PhD in Computer Science at the University of Eindhoven, the Netherlands.

This type of system, made possible by the dramatic advance in computing power, is a discipline that uses large volumes of already available data to build a program that can recognize common patterns and create new data.

“ChatGPT is an example of a program capable of sustaining several natural language dialogues. On the one hand, the system has been trained for such dialogue using techniques that involve humans, both in accessing conversations to learn from and in the process next. to evaluate and improve interactions,” he adds.

“The enormous efficiency of these systems is somewhat surprising given how little computational sophistication they have, and is supported by large duly classified databases (by human or otherwise) to learn from,” he adds.

At the moment, although it is not officially confirmed, the function that Microsoft wants to integrate makes sense with the various uses that the tool has been given.

That’s because refinement of this artificial intelligence has shown that it can work like a search engine, answering questions asked in natural language.