Subj : Fed up with Bing AI? You may not like an incoming change for Micr
To   : All
From : TechnologyDaily
Date : Tue May 02 2023 13:15:03

Fed up with Bing AI? You may not like an incoming change for Microsoft Edge

Date:
Tue, 02 May 2023 11:57:10 +0000

Description:
Some may regard an option to quickly access the Bing AI in the context menu 
for Edge as clutter.

FULL STORY
======================================================================

Microsoft is (again) pushing its Bing AI in a different way, this time in the 
Edge browser with a new option to fire up the chatbot. 

On Twitter, leaker Leopeva64 spotted (via Windows Latest ) that Microsoft 
Edge has brought in an option to access the chatbot in its right-click 
context menu. This is in testing right now, in the Canary channel for Edge. 
On another device where I have disabled the mini menu, the "Ask Bing Chat" 
item also appears in the main context menu, so it looks like the integration 
won't just be in the mini 
menu:https://t.co/cb43XREmkC.https://t.co/1DwYvhi63n 
pic.twitter.com/vsnfmiTIcP April 29, 2023 See more 

Leopeva64 demonstrates how it works in the above tweet. If the user selects 
some text on a web page, then right-clicks to bring up the context menu, 
theres an Ask Bing Chat ability. 

Clicking this enacts a query based on the selected text with Bing AI, popping 
up the chatbot in the sidebar to the right of the web page. You can then 
click to confirm the query  with a choice to Ignore if youve mistakenly 
summoned the Bing AI  and assuming the former, you can go ahead and conduct a 
session as normal with the chatbot. 

While Windows Latest reports that this change is for the Edge mini menu, 
Leopeva64 clarifies that its present in the main context menu for Microsofts 
browser, too. 

However, the option to Ask Bing Chat only appears in the context menu if you 
select text on a web page first, so if youre just right-clicking within Edge 
, you dont see it. Analysis: Bringing the Bing 

We can expect to see a lot more of the Bing AI in the near future, no doubt, 
given the current AI arms race, and the sheer amount of eggs Microsoft is 
currently heaping into the Bing chatbot basket. 

Just this weekend, we witnessed a bunch of improvements  for traveling, and 
recipes  being made on top of a lot of other recent work Microsoft has 
applied to the Bing AI. Currently, its well ahead of major rival Google Bard 
, and thats not a lead Microsoft will want to lose. 

As a result, its a fair bet that well see the Bing chatbot creep into other 
parts of the interface in Microsofts apps and of course Windows 11. Weve 
already seen the Bing AI being hooked into the search box on the taskbar in 
Windows 11, for example, and Microsoft will likely take the opportunity to 
jam in the chatbot wherever the company can. 

Therell surely be more UI real estate to claim in that respect, but Microsoft 
will have to balance this against the possible risk of annoying users wholl 
regard extra options to pipe through to Bing AI as unwelcome clutter.



======================================================================
Link to news story:
https://www.techradar.com/news/fed-up-with-bing-ai-you-may-not-like-an-incomin
g-change-for-microsoft-edge


--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 (Linux/64)
 * Origin: tqwNet Technology News (1337:1/100)

.