Microsoft bakes ChatGPT-like tech into search engine Bing

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Microsoft is using technology like ChatGPT in its search engine Bing

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Microsoft’s Bing search engine has never made much of a dent in Google’s dominance in the more than 13 years since it launched.

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Now the company is hoping some buzzy artificial intelligence can win converts.

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Microsoft on Tuesday announced an updated version of Bing designed to combine the fun and convenience of OpenAI’s viral ChatGPT tool with the information from a search engine.

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