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I think we all here at HN will inevitably underestimate the impact of putting GPT into Bing. We may have been playing with GPT for years, but it has just been gift-wrapped and delivered to hundreds of millions in their default Windows browser. I’m expecting it to blow grandma’s mind.

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Indeed, I was looking at the list of features and frankly it makes you want to use Edge + Bing as it removes the friction from going to the ChatGPT website entirely. You can ask it to write your LinkedIn posts, define itineraries, translate, etc... all with a simple natural language interface.

I'm going to have to set up a windows VM again - this could definitely pull a lot of technical folks back to Windows.

Edge is available on macOS, Linux, iOS and Android.

Unless they use this as a way to pull people back into the Microsoft ecosystem.

I don't think they are that dumb, and really Windows doesn't seem to be a big part of Microsoft's masterplan anymore, at least not in Ai.

Microsoft changed to an OS agnostic strategy with the switch from Ballmer -> Nadella.

It won’t be limited to Edge. From the event:

Q: Will this be available in Chrome or other browsers?

Yusuf: Our intention is to bring it to all browsers. We're starting with Edge. Chrome has to implement some things to make it work, but our intention is all browsers.

> Chrome has to implement some things to make it work, but our intention is all browsers.

Edge is literally just Chrome with a few addons bolted in.... Does anyone know what that "some things" is?

Bing Sponsored Offers?

This will be an event to look back on.

If the web has had 4 stages, html, ajax, video, mobile, this shift to moving past keyword search is the next revolution. Microsoft will be wise to quickly integrate this into Excel, PowerPoint.

This is also one of those "the world is not ready" type events. A lot of busywork exists and is predicated on the assumption these types of queries arent available at speed.

This is not about grandmas though, it's not a 'dumbed down' version of a tech but a powerful tool for students, teachers, accountants, bankers, computer programmers. Google felt that way in 2000 when it made the web "usable", to do serious work with. IF this becomes dumbed down in the future in order to accomodate the most frivolous content seekers, then yes it will be a loss, just like how google has degraded to "search for a safe, shallow subset of the web"

Grandma will still Bing www.google.com but instead ChatGPT will give her a 5 paragraph lecture on how to search the internet properly.

I've heard there are already 100M of ChatGPT users. The hype has been strong.

I heard yesterday that it had "grown to 200 million users in 2 months"

I heard today that it had grown "beyond 300 million users in 2.5 months".

Crazy!

> I’m expecting it to blow grandma’s mind.

Nah, the average person doesn't have the context to understand that something impressive is happening at all.

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