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The biggest news was the announcement of a new Bing powered by ChatGPT.
Sadly, the event was not livestreamed, though youcan now watch it.
We were on the ground at Microsofts headquarters in Redmond to cover the news as it happened.
Were all prepped for the Microsoft event later today.
I’m seated and we’re prepping for the announcements starting in about 15 minutes.
Everyone is getting seated and trying to get Wi-Fi to work lol.
About 5 minutes to go!
- DR
Frank Shaw is on stage now to do an introduction.
Thanking everyone for showing up and giving an orientation.Presentation is 1 hr 15 mins plus Q&A.
At 2 PM PT everything announced will be released (press stuff).
And then press gets an off-the-record meeting with Microsoft people.
Here we go: CEO Satya Nadella hits the stage.
Jokes we’re going to talk about Kubernetes and we all groan/laugh.
Nadella is giving an overview of Microsoft and huge milestones.
Referencing Pres Carter and what he faced regarding the economy, inflation.
“We as Microsoft how to relate one to the other.
How do we overcome these challenges.
“Goes on to share some anecdotes about Microsoft and technology.
Starts talking about ChatGPT and OpenAI.
Nadealla talks about hitting 1/2 a billion developers in the next decade and how transformative that will be.
A digital public good.
That’s what gives me meaning…“And now we need to scale it.
“It starts, by the way, with design decisions.
They’re prompted to do things.
We get to help them prompt.
““And so, what is it we should do?
What should we build?
This will reshape the software industry.
“Talking about the web, mobile and cloud.
“And how is AI going to reshape the web?”
“We think two things are emerging: Conversational agents: All interactions will be assisted.
The idea of a co-pilot.
“References the web internet tool.First: Largest software category on earth… Search.
“We’re going to move fast.
We want to have a lot of FUN in search because it’s high time.”
Yousef takes the stage.
“We think of this as the next generation of search.
ALL NEW BING AND EDGE internet tool.
Yousef jokes about Clippy as he appears briefly.
Remarks about 10B search queries.
What if you might merge AI and search.
“That’s what we did with the new Bing.”
The new bing:
1.
OpenAI: next gen language model
2.
Prometheus Model: Improve relevancy, annotate answers, up to date results, understand geolocation, increase safety.
User Experience (unified); search coming together answers, chat, and the net web surfer.
“We see search and answers on the same page.
bing can also bring up exact amounts of ingredients for recipes.
“just little helpful tips that can help make your life easier.”
Let me tell you about Bing goes further: New chat experience!
Hit the chat button; page clears with all information.
You get to ask about gaming TVs, and you see it pull in the results.
Pivots to travel and using Bing.
““Make it a 3 day trip” and Bing will redo the query.
“Where is the nightlife?”
and just continue to ask other questions, just like talking to a person.
Next up is references in Japanese, translates automatically Japanese information, haiku.
“look how easy it is to discover.
This is what we mean by unlocking the joy of discovery.”
The team has created.Now in Edge.
All new Edge surfing app, sleeker, and with Bing button.
One-click launch the side bar.
Chat and Compose.Can do all the search and chat right within your PDF document, or Stack Overflow.
New Edge and Edge Bing sidebar with chat built right in.
“I feel we’ve been waiting for this for 20 years.
I think this is the beginning of a new era…
I’m excited to work with Microsoft and check that this technology is deployed safely.
“Dena Saunders, Bing Engineering at Microsoft takes the stage.
“We’re committed to learning with you.”
Sarah Bird, Responsible AI Lead, Azure, is now on stage.
“We have been preparing for this moment for many years.”
“Since 2017, we have been investing to confirm our AI designs” are safe.
“We’re not new to generative AI solutions,” e.g.
grammar editing in Word.
Bing Create powered by Dall-E model and Florence.
Gives breakdown of mitigation layers.
“Can respond within minutes.
““How do we know all this works?”
“This is where we really needed to innovate.
““We developed a new testing system.”
Developed a conversation simulator.
It pretends to be adversarial.
No human is needed and then work with linguists to classify responses.
“create a tight loop of testing, analyzing, and improving.
“We can test many AI risks.
First question is about safety, check/balances.
Dena answers “We give a shot to be transparent … allows you to assess for yourself.
“2nd Question: Talk about the architecture.
Compare Prometheus to ChatGPT.
“How do they fit together.”
“It’s like ChatGPT but enhanced, powered by search.”
Wash Post: Sources for chat responses?
Bing has already been working for years in bringing the right/ranking information to the user.
Q: What do you think of the impact of more and more posts being AI generated?
Any considerations in marking things as AI created?
A: (Yousef) We allow to go and edit.
It’s a good question.
“We want you to be able to build on top of what AI created.”
Q: AI is compute intensive.
Q: What about hallucinations?
“Users will see some area where there are small changes, more variation.”
Using citations so users can go deeper themselves and are always in command.Q: Co-pilot available in other browsers?
What about objectionable content in a chat?
A: “Our intention IS to bring it to ALL browsers.
Start with Edge.”
As we continue to partner with Azure we’ll evaluate new offerings.”
Search model is free.
“It’s a win-win all around.”
Thanks everyone for tuning in.
