The revolution of web search If you haven’t been living under a rock, you should have heard about the large language model, or LLM, revolution that is taking the world by storm. The two most popular options are ChatGPT and Bing Chat, followed by Google’s Bard. The open source alternatives are catching up, but in today’s blog, I’ll focus on what is currently the best option for the consumer. Why Bing Chat over standard web search? The future of web search is here. Bing Chat is not just a way to summarize, generalize, and extract more useful information from a web search. It is a full-featured personal assistant that can carry out your own searches, answer questions, teach you things, create awesome content ranging from code generation to poem writing, and even have some fun with you. The web search is just the tip of the iceberg. To a language model’s eyes, “search” is merely a tool in its arsenal. In the same way, it has the potential to utilize other software. From image and video editing tools to full-blown programming skills, the sky is the limit. The “AutoGPT” tools are something that you might want to keep an eye on. Why Bing Chat over ChatGPT? They are both essentially the same language model, the Generative Pre-Trained Transformer 4, or GPT4. Bing Chat, in contrast, is supported by Microsoft and is available for free right now; it performs independent online searches, reads and helps with your own documents from the browser, and does a lot more. However, ChatGPT (GPT4 version), which is supported by OpenAI, has more usage restrictions and the potential to be slower. It also requires a monthly subscription and an additional fee to use the same benefits in the form of plugins. Bing Chat is Microsoft’s play […]