Microsoft is revamping its search products with more artificial intelligence, including the wildly popular ChatGPT, as tech companies race to take advantage of increasingly powerful AI tools. The company detailed its plans at a special event on Tuesday, saying it would work with OpenAI, the startup behind the ChatGPT tool, to upgrade its Bing search engine and Edge web browser and enhance the information available. The announcement comes a day after Google revealed it is releasing its own artificial intelligence chatbot, called Bard, in response to the huge success of ChatGPT. Microsoft is staking its future on AI through billions of dollars of investment and seeking to capitalize on the worldwide excitement surrounding ChatGPT, a tool that's awakened millions of people to the possibilities of the latest AI technology, and is already changing how people gather information. "This technology is going to reshape pretty much every software category," said Satya Nadella, the chief executive of Microsoft, in a briefing for reporters at Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, Washington.

Microsoft invited media to this event last week before making the details public just minutes after Google announced its own ChatGPT rival. That should tell you how important this event is for Microsoft and what's on the agenda. While Microsoft is keeping details thin, the invite says Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella will "share some progress on a few exciting projects," so expect a number of important announcements.

Check out all the on-demand sessions from the Intelligent Security Summit here. Today, ChatGPT is two months old. Yes, believe it or not, it was less than nine weeks ago that OpenAI launched what it simply described as an "early demo" a part of the GPT-3.5 series -- an interactive, conversational model whose dialogue format "makes it possible for ChatGPT to answer followup questions, admit its mistakes, challenge incorrect premises, and reject inappropriate requests." ChatGPT quickly caught the imagination -- and feverish excitement -- of both the AI community and the general public. Since then, the tool's possibilities as well as limitations and hidden dangers have been well established, and any hints of slowing down its development were quickly dashed when Microsoft announced its plans to invest billions more into OpenAI.

OpenAI's popular chatbot, ChatGPT, has been used to perform multiple tasks since its launch last November. This includes writing, helping students copy, and making children's books. Powerful chatbots with the fastest-growing user base are expected to displace many jobs. According to Business Insider, once a chatbot is interviewed by a company, Google can hire it at an entry-level level of code. Amazon employees who tested ChatGPT also spoke highly of the chatbot.

OpenAI's ChatGPT is a language model AI that can generate human-like text responses to a wide range of questions and prompts. The AI is still in development, so some responses may not be up to your standards. However, it is a powerful tool that can be used for many purposes, including writing CVs and resumes. Here's a selection of useful and fun things you might want to try out with OpenAI's groundbreaking ChatGPT.

The AI system is able to interpret a user's question and generate human-like responses -- language capabilities it developed by ingesting vast amounts of text scraped from the internet and finding patterns between words. The system's developers, the San Francisco-based research lab OpenAI, built the chatbot by fine-tuning one of its older models, called GPT-3.5. Using feedback from human contractors, OpenAI finessed ChatGPT so that responses were more accurate, less offensive, and sounded more natural. Still, users found that ChatGPT sometimes confidently delivers inaccurate answers, spouts nonsense, repeats harmful racial bias, and can be manipulated to violate its own safety rules.

Microsoft Corp. is integrating the technology behind the viral chatbot ChatGPT into its Bing search engine, hoping the artificial intelligence upgrade can help it chip away at Google's dominance of the search market. The breakout success of the bot from the Microsoft-backed OpenAI has put the software giant at the forefront of what some see as the next wave of technological innovation: generative artificial intelligence.

Google is expected to announce artificial intelligence integrations for the company's search engine on February 8 at 8:30 am Eastern. It's free to watch live on YouTube. "We're starting with AI-powered features in Search that distill complex info into easy-to-digest formats, so you can see the big picture, then explore more," Google CEO Sundar Pichai wrote on Twitter in the lead-up to the event. Despite recent layoffs, the company remains an assertive force in Silicon Valley. The viral success of other generative AI models, specifically OpenAI's ChatGPT, put pressure on the company to expedite its experimental research for public use.

Microsoft's set to make an AI-related announcement today at 1pm ET, but it will not be streaming the keynote to the public. Not to worry, though, we're here at the event in Redmond and will be liveblogging all the news the company is sharing today. After Google unveiled its ChatGPT rival Bard yesterday, Microsoft revealed it had been planning today's event all along, without disclosing many details beyond telling us to expect information about "exciting projects." Thanks to a tweet from OpenAI's Sam Altman, though, we can at least guess that generative AI is on the agenda, if not the star of the show. We'll be starting this liveblog around 12:30pm ET, with myself (Cherlynn Low) on text and our head of video Brian Oh taking pictures.

Google and Baidu have both revealed that they will bring their own competitors of OpenAI's ChatGPT artificial intelligence into their search engines, as an AI arms race between the world's largest tech companies has exploded into the public sphere. The news comes just days after leaked images revealed that Microsoft is planning to integrate ChatGPT into its Bing search engine to provide results.