Subj : Bing AI could soon be much more versatile and powerful thanks to
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From : TechnologyDaily
Date : Wed Nov 08 2023 12:15:05

Bing AI could soon be much more versatile and powerful thanks to plug-ins

Date:
Wed, 08 Nov 2023 11:57:35 +0000

Description:
Microsofts Bing chatbot might be considerably upgraded with plug-ins which 
are now back in testing.

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 Microsofts Bing AI may be close to finally getting plug-ins, a feature that 
has been experimented with before, and will make the chatbot considerably 
more versatile and powerful (in theory, anyway). 

 Windows Latest reports that the update to add plug-ins has rolled out to a 
small number of Bing Chat users over the weekend, and the tech site was one 
of those to get access. 

Note that it appears the rollout is only happening for those using the Canary 
version of Microsofts Edge browser (and Windows Latest only got the feature 
in that preview release, not in the finished version of Edge). 

Were told that the AI currently offers five plug-ins to testers and you can 
pick any three of those to use in a session. If you want to change plug-ins, 
youll need to start a new Bing Chat session. 

Windows Latest carried out some testing with a couple of those plug-ins, and 
the results seemed useful, with the OpenTable add-on providing some 
restaurant recommendations in a query. 

Other plug-ins available in testing include Kayak, Klarna, and a shopping 
add-on for buying suggestions  weve already got you covered there, of course, 
especially for the imminent Black Friday sale  but it may be the case that 
different plug-ins appear for different users. Analysis: Faster and better 

Eventually, of course, there will be a whole load of plug-ins for the Bing 
AI, or thats certainly Microsofts plan, although theyll doubtless be rolled 
out in stages over time. One of those will be the much-awaited no search 
function that was switched to be implemented via a plug-in not so long ago. 
(This allows the user to specify that the AI cant use search content scraped 
from the web in its responses). 

Weve seen plug-ins in a limited test rollout before (in August), but they 
were pulled, so this is effectively a return of the feature  hinting it might 
arrive sooner rather than later. 

Fingers crossed, and the good news is that Windows Latest observes that these 
new plug-ins seem to be more responsive and work better than the old efforts 
(performance-related concerns are likely one of the reasons that the test 
plug-ins got pulled earlier this year). You might also like ... Bing AI is 
coming to Chrome, taking on Google Bard on its own turf Microsoft kills off 
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AI writing tools to Chromebooks



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Link to news story:
https://www.techradar.com/computing/artificial-intelligence/bing-ai-could-soon
-be-much-more-versatile-and-powerful-thanks-to-plug-ins


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