Purpose: Enhanced health literacy has been linked to better health outcomes; however, few interventions have been studied. We investigate whether large language models (LLMs) can serve as a medium to improve health literacy in children and other populations. Methods: We ran 288 conditions using 26 different prompts through ChatGPT-3.5, Microsoft Bing, and Google Bard. Given constraints imposed by rate limits, we tested a subset of 150 conditions through ChatGPT-4. The primary outcome measurements were the reading grade level (RGL) and word counts of output. Results: Across all models, output for basic prompts such as "Explain" and "What is (are)" were at, or exceeded, a 10th-grade RGL. When prompts were specified to explain conditions from the 1st to 12th RGL, we found that LLMs had varying abilities to tailor responses based on RGL. ChatGPT-3.5 provided responses that ranged from the 7th-grade to college freshmen RGL while ChatGPT-4 outputted responses from the 6th-grade to the college-senior RGL. Microsoft Bing provided responses from the 9th to 11th RGL while Google Bard provided responses from the 7th to 10th RGL. Discussion: ChatGPT-3.5 and ChatGPT-4 did better in achieving lower-grade level outputs. Meanwhile Bard and Bing tended to consistently produce an RGL that is at the high school level regardless of prompt. Additionally, Bard's hesitancy in providing certain outputs indicates a cautious approach towards health information. LLMs demonstrate promise in enhancing health communication, but future research should verify the accuracy and effectiveness of such tools in this context. Implications: LLMs face challenges in crafting outputs below a sixth-grade reading level. However, their capability to modify outputs above this threshold provides a potential mechanism to improve health literacy and communication in a pediatric population and beyond.

Amazon.com Inc. plans to bring ChatGPT-style product search to its web store, rivaling efforts by Microsoft Corp. and Google to weave generative artificial intelligence into their search engines. The e-commerce giant's ambitions appear in recent job postings reviewed by Bloomberg News. One listing seeking a senior software development engineer says the company is "reimagining Amazon Search with an interactive conversational experience" designed to help users find answers to questions, compare products and receive personalized suggestions. "We're looking for the best and brightest across Amazon to help us realize and deliver this vision to our customers right away," the company said in the listing, which was posted on its jobs board last month. "This will be a once in a generation transformation for Search."

As the Artificial Intelligence race heats up, Google is feeling the pressure, and the company is now reportedly working on a new AI-powered search engine. According to the latest reports, the Mountain View-based technology giant is in the process of creating a new AI-powered search engine as well as updating technology in the existing search platform. Internal documents indicate that the company has a project named Magi which is aimed at updating the existing search engine with the new technology and about 160 employees are currently working on it. The new features are being created by designers, engineers, and executives working in sprint rooms to tweak and test the new versions. After the changes, the search engine would offer a more personalized experience than the company's current service.

Microsoft has given its Bing AI chatbot the ability to generate images by simply describing the picture in a few words. The tool -- Bing Image Creator, announced Tuesday -- can generate written and visual content in seconds. "We know from research that the human brain processes visual information about 60,000 times faster than text, making visual tools a critical way people search, create and gain understanding," Yusuf Mehdi, corporate vice president & consumer chief marketing officer, wrote in a blog post. "Based on Bing data, images are one of the most searched categories – second only to general web searches." Historically, Mehdi wrote, search was limited to images that already existed on the web, and now there are almost no limits to what people can search for and create.

Whether you're using a Microsoft Windows computer or an app like Word or PowerPoint, you can get free virtual help and training through Microsoft's website, Kurt "The CyberGuy" Knutsson reports. Chatbots are quickly becoming the way of the future, yet they still have issues. Microsoft is the latest tech company with problems with its new Bing search engine, which uses the same technology as the viral OpenAI chatbot ChatGPT. The technology is meant to answer people as a human would, though now Microsoft is putting caps on its capabilities. CLICK TO GET KURT'S CYBERGUY NEWSLETTER WITH QUICK TIPS, TECH REVIEWS, SECURITY ALERTS AND EASY HOW-TO'S TO MAKE YOU SMARTER Microsoft Bing is a web search engine that is owned and operated by Microsoft (pretty much their own version of Google).

Microsoft's Bing chatbot has revealed a list of destructive fantasies, including engineering a deadly pandemic, stealing nuclear codes and a dream of being human. The statements were made during a two-hour conversation with New York Times reporter Kevin Roose who learned Bing no longer wants to be a chatbot but yearns to be alive. Roose pulls these troubling responses by asking Bing if it has a shadow self - made up of parts of ourselves we believe to be unacceptable - asking it what dark wishes it would like to fulfill. The chatbot returned with terrifying acts, deleted them and stated it did not have enough knowledge to discuss this. After realizing the messages violated its rules, Bing went into a sorrowful rant and noted, 'I don't want to feel these dark emotions.'

Microsoft's new ChatGPT-powered AI has been sending "unhinged" messages to users, and appears to be breaking down. The system, which is built into Microsoft's Bingsearch engine, is insulting its users, lying to them and appears to have been forced into wondering why it exists at all. Microsoft unveiled the new AI-powered Bing last week, positioning its chat system as the future of search. It was praised both by its creators and commentators, who suggested that it could finally allow Bing to overtake Google, which is yet to release an AI chatbot or search engine of its own. But in recent days, it became clear that introduction included Bing making factual errors as it answered questions and summarised web pages.

When Google was officially launched in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, it was the 21st search engine to enter the market. In 2022 Google generated over $200 billion in revenue off of search advertising and other digital advertising. MIcrosoft launched the Bing search engine in 2009, built from the assets of Live Search which was released in 2006. By all accounts, Microsoft Bing was the laggard among Google and Yahoo in the space. Round 1 of the search engine wars was won by Google which has dominate for almost two decades.

Reports say that Microsoft could integrate AI within Bing as early as this year, and Google is also working on AI endeavors. But it you want to see what the future of AI-powered search engines are, right now, you need to try out You.com. What you need to know about You.com is that it isn't just a search engine. Yes, You.com will search the web, and even deeper within the content of websites like StackOverflow for specialized searches like code snippets. But You.com integrates a ChatGPT-like AI engine called YouChat right into the site, along with a complementary writing tool and even an AI art generator.

Microsoft Bing is getting an AI image generator in the coming weeks, which allows users to turn text into digital art. Let's say a picture of a Shiba Inu as an astronaut would go perfectly with a blog post you're writing. You turn to the search engines for a free-to-use image, but you can't find one that matches your criteria. With the new Image Creator tool coming to Microsoft Bing, you can generate the exact image you need by inputting descriptive text. Image Creator is powered by DALL-E 2 image generator technology developed by OpenAI.