Microsoft, OpenAI, ChatGPT ... and Bing?
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🗓️ 7 January 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
What would a combination of OpenAI's ChatGPT natural language chatbot with Microsoft's Bing search engine look like?
We discuss the potentially surprising possibilities with longtime journalist and Microsoft watcher Mary Jo Foley, editor-in-chief at DirectionsOnMicrosoft.com, following a report this week by The Information, citing unnamed sources who say Microsoft is working on just such an integration.
Also on the show, we discuss the evolution and future of Microsoft Power Platform, and the key issues facing the company in the year ahead. Plus, we get the details on Mary Jo's new role, which includes writing the new Directions on Microsoft Blog, and hosting the Directions on Microsoft Briefing podcast.
Read Mary Jo Foley's posts for more on these topics:
- Could OpenAI's ChatGPT make Microsoft's long-rumored Bing chatbot a reality?
- Microsoft's plan to turn its Power Platform into a 'Power House'
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| 0:00.0 | But once they integrate GPT in there, somebody like me will be able to say, build me an app that |
| 0:06.3 | keeps track of all the beers that I've had in the past year. Just to put an example out there. |
| 0:12.2 | How many terabytes of cloud swords would that require? Many, many. |
| 0:22.1 | Welcome to Geekwire. I'm Geekwire co-founder Todd Bishop. |
| 0:24.5 | This week on the show, Microsoft, OpenAI, GPT, and the Future of Search and Enterprise Technology. |
| 0:33.4 | My guest this week is Mary Joe Foley, who has covered Microsoft for many years and is now the editor at Directions on Microsoft. |
| 0:41.7 | You can find her work at directions on Microsoft.com slash blog. |
| 0:46.6 | Mary Jo, it's great to have you here. |
| 0:48.8 | Hey, Todd. |
| 0:49.6 | Nice to be back doing a podcast with you. |
| 0:51.6 | It's been too long. |
| 0:52.3 | We wanted to have you on to talk about the news |
| 0:55.2 | this week, which was broken by the news site, The Information, which reported that Microsoft |
| 0:59.7 | is preparing to incorporate OpenAI's chat GPT technology into the Bing search engine. But I wanted |
| 1:07.5 | to start first, Mary Jo, just with your big picture impressions of this partnership between Microsoft and OpenAI. |
| 1:15.1 | It dates back to a billion dollar investment that Microsoft made an OpenAI back in 2019. |
| 1:20.9 | How would you describe the strategic importance of this partnership for Microsoft? |
| 1:25.0 | So when Microsoft first announced this in 2019, |
| 1:28.5 | I kind of took it as a pay-for-play-type announcement. |
| 1:32.8 | I didn't really give it. |
| 1:33.9 | It's full weight, I don't think. |
| 1:35.5 | I was like, okay, they invested a billion dollars in OpenAI. |
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