Microsoft has recently announced that Bing chat has been updated with several new features, including chat history, charts and visualizations, privacy improvements, and the ability to export answers. The company has eliminated its waitlist and expanded Bing chat access to users. The new upgrades for the generative AI tool are now rolling out to users. Previously imposed limits on asking queries have also been silently lifted.
New Features
Microsoft has begun rolling out the much-awaited chat history feature for Bing chat. Users can now see their previous chat threads with the AI chatbot on the right of the chat window and continue an older conversation. Users can also rename, delete, export, or share a chat thread with other users. OpenAI released its official ChatGPT app for iOS last week, which also features support for conversation history across devices.
One of the major privacy improvements added to Bing chat is the ability to exclude records of conversations related to files on users’ PCs, or content that is not part of Microsoft’s search index. This functionality will prevent personal data from being included in the data used to train these generative AI tools.
Bing chat can also accompany responses containing numbers or statistics with charts and visualizations. This means that asking for the stock price of a listed company or ranking cities in a country by population will see the chatbot provide graphs alongside the text results. Meanwhile, visual elements that are shown at the bottom of text-based answers for recipe-related queries have also been optimized.
Microsoft has also rolled out a similar export feature that will allow users to send their chat results to a Microsoft Word document, a text file, or a PDF file. The company says it has updated Bing chat with a new overlay for results that include a video response. This will allow users to watch full-screen videos and navigate the video with timestamps located on the right side of the display. Bing chat will also automatically suggest words when typing prompts, according to the company.
With the new upgrades, Bing chat is now able to offer users more features and tools to help with their search queries. The chat history feature is a welcome addition that allows users to access previous conversations, rename, delete, export, or even share a chat thread with other users. The privacy improvement feature also helps to prevent personal data from being included in the data used to train generative AI tools. Moreover, the ability to export chat results to a Microsoft Word document, a text file, or a PDF file is a useful feature that allows users to save chat results for later use.
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