Microsoft’s new AI-powered Bing might be the death of traditional search results. On Tuesday, the company debuted the new Bing, which taps into OpenAI’s ChatGPT to reinvent how online search is done. We had a chance to try the new Bing at Microsoft’s offices in Redmond, where we asked the program to answer a variety of questions. Our main takeaway: Bing takes the search experience further by synthesizing the numerous results from a normal search engine and reproducing them in an easy-to-understand format. For example, if you wanted to create an itinerary for a trip to a foreign city or a meal plan to lose weight, you’d normally use a search engine to turn up relevant articles on the topic. Then you’d read the articles to come up with the itinerary or the meal plan. The new Bing, on the other hand, can read all the relevant articles for you and then churn out an easy-to-read, bulleted article(Opens in a new window) in seconds, all the while citing the sources.
