Microsoft is incorporating artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot technology into its search engine Bing and its browser Edge.
The company made the announcement at a press event on Tuesday at its Redmond headquarters in Washington.
Bing and Edge will be powered by an upgraded version of the AI technology that’s the hallmark of ChatGPT, the conversational service developed by OpenAI that can provide responses to a multitude of prompts.
Yusuf Mehdi, a Microsoft executive who leads its search division, said a public preview of the new Bing launched Tuesday for users who sign up for it, but the technology will scale to millions of users in coming weeks….