Microsoft needs another good antitrust lawsuit. They're so aggressive about pushing their products.

I haven't heard many other people complain about it so it was probably a very short term thing, but I'll never forget when they updated windows defender to identify the chrome installer as highest-threat malware so that its download would be blocked, and if you forced the download windows would instantly delete the installer for your own protection.

Use Firefox

Is it me, or is that pretty anti consumer?

Consider it payback for when Google kept shilling chrome everywhere back then

PLEASE USE OUR PRODUCTS WE BEG YOU

Not really one to defend Google, but Microsoft is out of line on this (and a lot of other stuff they do). Sadly our Congresspeople are pretty much owned by these corps and won't do anything about it.

Microsoft now has implemented "compare with Bing chat" button when you visit Google Bard in Edge

That title has so many brand names I feel like I'm reading infinite jest

I hate big tech. I hate big tech.

The AI hype is getting to be even worse than the NFT hype

Bing lets me use their AI chatbot search without creating an account.

Bing wins.

While bard got some really bad reviews compared to chatgpt, I've honestly found it better with queries chatgpt struggled with. I have two examples:

1. "Please write a python function that returns an exact solution to pi" Both come up with gregory-leibnitz formula, which of course is an approximation. When challenged that I want an exact solution instead of an approximation, chatgpt apologizes and then returns yet another approximation. Bard correctly claims that that is impossible as pi is an irrational number.
2. "What can you tell me about a compound called polysac-active in cough syrups". Chatgpt hallucinates something about a company in Indonesia, which seems to have a product that sounds vaguely similar to one of the brands selling that compound. Bard, on the other hand, correctly surmises it's mostly honey and even gives some examples of real products that feature this ingredient.

In general, Bard in general seems one of the few llms that will tell me it doesn't know something or that something is impossible. IMHO that's better than just coming up with a hallucination.

"...but as the company grew and became more..."

Evil

I liked Edge whilst it was in beta. It was just another browser. Now it's a browser caked with Microsoft services so they do their best to try to get you to use it. Even Outlook now opens links in Edge, yes ignoring your default browser settings, unless you go into Outlook and unconfigure it. Fuck off Microsoft.

You have no idea why? Really? It’s to get people thinking about / trying bing.

It’s all advertising.

We’re going to enter another search engine (read chatbot) war.

To be fair that could be a lot worse. I was expecting injected webpage content. I think this is acceptable and serves as a quick way to compare multiple sources. I dislike that it's Microsoft more than I do the actual "feature".

As if there is any comparison, bing is miles better, especially in gpy-4 mode.

It's like a dick measuring contest; personally, I don't want AI shoved down my throat and my private data sold without my consent.

Hasn't this been there for months? I remember seeing this a while ago.

This will probably work for a lot of people, since as much as we hate this kind of marketing the products are genuinely competitive and many people will just pick the better solution.

If you ignore the improvement to Edge and Bing(AI) now it's out of spite of this polarising marketing, but just be aware that you're not the majority that this advertising is aimed at.

Probably to collect data on comparative performance.

I'd like to recommend this video by a retired Microsoft OS engineer about how LLMs like ChatGPT and Bard work. It has lots of technical mumbo jumbo, but Dave tries to explain it in simpler terms.

Sounds pretty helpful to me. Like really old first-generation Opera when it was really proud of its ability to search like 15 different search engines by putting g or b or w or y or whatever in the address bar before typing a search query or when it had still had its own built-in email program