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The Online Search Wars
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February 17, 2023
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31:20Now PlayingMicrosoft recently released a new version of Bing, its search engine that has long been kind of a punchline in the tech world.
The company billed this Bing — which is powered by artificial intelligence software from OpenAI, the maker of the popular chatbot ChatGPT — as a reinvention of how billions of people search the internet.
How does that claim hold up?
GuestKevin Roose () , a technology columnist for The New York Times and host of the Times podcast “Hard Fork () .”
Background reading:
• When Microsoft released the new Bing, it was billed as a landmark event () and the company’s “iPhone moment.”
• On the latest episode of “Hard Fork,” () OpenAI’s chief executive, Sam Altman, and Microsoft’s chief technology officer, Kevin Scott, talk about an A.I.powered Bing.
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