Bing around and find out • TechCrunch

Microsoft's new and improved Bing, powered by a custom version of OpenAI's ChatGPT, has experienced a dizzyingly quick reversal: from "next big thing" to "brand-sinking albatross" in under a week. ChatGPT is a really interesting demonstration of a new and unfamiliar technology that's also fun to use. So it's not surprising that, like every other AI-adjacent construct that comes down the line, this novelty would cause its capabilities to be overestimated by everyone from high-powered tech types to people normally uninterested in the space. It's at the right "tech readiness level" for discussion over tea or a beer: what are the merits and risks of generative AI's take on art, literature, or philosophy? How can we be sure what it is original, imitative, hallucinated?