Bing’s showing ‘AI-generated stories’ in some search results

Microsoft continues so as to add AI options to its Bing search engine, even exterior of the GPT-powered chat options it’s been pushing. According to a characteristic roundup weblog submit, Bing will now “craft AI-generated stories” for some searches, providing you with a small multimedia presentation in regards to the factor you seemed up. The firm says it’s a technique to allow you to “consume bite-sized information” whereas looking out sure subjects.

The tales look much like those you’d discover on social media platforms like Instagram or Snapchat, with a progress bar to inform you when it’s going to advance to the subsequent slide. Slides have textual content explaining the factor you’ve searched in addition to associated photographs and movies. You may also unmute the story to have a voice learn out the textual content to you, full with background music.

The tales don’t present up in each search — when a co-worker and I attempted it, we acquired them to seem after we seemed up “cubism,” “impressionism,” and “tai chi,” however not for phrases like “iPhone,” “Apple,” or “best restaurants Spokane.” To be honest, not each search wants a narrative; if I’m simply on the lookout for dinner, I don’t suppose I’d like having a robotic voice learn out the historical past of my native eating scene.

Microsoft says tales will probably be obtainable to individuals looking out in English, French, Japanese, German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, and Arabic.

The firm additionally introduced that it’s upgrading the “knowledge cards” that present as much as the proper of search results, saying that it’s “expanded the richness and breadth of knowledge cards supported by Bing using generative AI.” The playing cards can embody tales of their very own (I looked for Seattle, and it supplied up two tales) in addition to parts like timelines a couple of nation, metropolis, or occasion’s historical past.