Microsoft’s ChatGPT-powered Bing has been grabbing headlines ever since the company debuted the generative A.I. chatbot earlier this month. And now the software is being built directly into Windows 11.
Available today as part of Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 update, the Bing app will sit in your PC’s taskbar where it will be accessible via a search box, so you can ask the bot questions at any time without having to open the Edge web browser.
“You can simply type in the taskbar, and ask for information and get helpful information,” corporate vice president and consumer CMO Yusuf Mehdi told Yahoo Finance. “I think that’s the first step to making this tool even more relevant to whatever it is you’re doing on the PC.”
Bing has been praised for offering users who sign up to access the preview a new way to search the web by chatting with the A.I.-powered bot. But it’s also been criticized for providing inaccurate answers in some instances, including during my own testing when it gave me the wrong revenue data for Apple’s (AAPL) Q3 earnings report. In other cases, users have accused the bot of presenting strange responses to long strings of queries.
