The new Microsoft Bing, and how AI is changing the web
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🗓️ 11 February 2023
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Yusuf Mehdi is a Microsoft veteran of more than 31 years, who has been involved in the development and launch of some of the company's biggest products, including Windows 95 and Windows 11, the Xbox One console, and past versions of Microsoft's search engine. He's currently the corporate vice president and consumer chief marketing officer.
He spoke with GeekWire's Todd Bishop on the Microsoft campus on Tuesday, a few hours after introducing the new Bing search engine and an updated version of Microsoft's Edge browser with a sidebar that uses AI to generate and analyze web content.
Topics of the discussion include the potential impact of AI search on content creators, Google's preemptive response to Microsoft's announcement, the precautions Microsoft is taking to prevent another "Tay" moment, and both the capabilities and limitations of this new generation of AI.
The new Bing, along with an updated version of Microsoft’s Edge browser, are available in a limited preview, with a wait-list for those who want to try the AI search and web copilot as they roll out more broadly.
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| 0:00.0 | Write an intro for a Geekwire podcast episode about the new Microsoft Bing search engine powered by OpenAI technology based on an interview by Todd Bishop with Yusuf METI, Microsoft Executive, on the Microsoft |
| 0:30.1 | campus after the announcement this week. |
| 0:36.2 | Tone. |
| 0:38.6 | Casual. |
| 0:40.1 | Format. |
| 0:41.3 | Paragraph. |
| 0:42.1 | Length. |
| 0:43.2 | Short. |
| 0:45.3 | Generate draft. |
| 0:57.1 | Hello and welcome to Geekwire, the podcast where we bring you the latest news and insights from the tech world. |
| 1:02.1 | I'm your host, Todd Bishop, and today we have a very special episode for you. |
| 1:08.5 | We're going to talk about the new Microsoft Bing search engine powered by OpenAI technology that was announced this week. |
| 1:12.1 | This is a huge deal, if it doesn't say so itself, |
| 1:18.0 | because it means that Bing can now understand natural language queries, generate relevant answers, and even create original content on the fly. To find out more about this breakthrough, |
| 1:23.6 | I visited the Microsoft campus and interviewed Yusuf Medi, one of the executives behind the project. |
| 1:29.3 | He told me how Bing and Open AI teamed up, what challenges they faced, and what this means for the future of search and AI. |
| 1:37.3 | So stay tuned because you don't want to miss this episode of Geekwire. |
| 1:41.3 | Not bad. |
| 1:42.3 | Yes, the intro that I just read was exactly as drafted by Microsoft's |
| 1:49.5 | newly unveiled AI technology based on that prompt that I gave it. My guest this week is Yusuf |
| 1:55.6 | Medi, a Microsoft veteran of more than 31 years, who has been involved in the development and launch of some of the company's biggest products. |
| 2:02.6 | He's currently corporate vice president and consumer chief marketing officer for the company. |
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