Bing seems to be running a new test on their first SERPs: besides blue boxes for sitelinks of the organic number one result, they were showing 2 grey boxes for some other results in the left column.
Possibly these boxes represent entities and main keywords of these pages.
At first glance I don´t see the advantage for regular users. So, maybe this is giving a glimpse into how Bing organizes results? Maybe it's not meant for the public?
After tinkering with this for quite some time, I've finally discovered a workable URL scheme that #Bing#AI uses on #iOS — many aspects of the Bing app can be accessed via sapphire:// ... and the AI chat (codenamed "Sydney") can be initiated at sapphire://sydney?showconv=1&q=MYQUERY ... even better, you can plug this into #shortcuts so that you can initiate AI queries through Siri! Attaching my "Ask Sydney" shortcut here: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/1cb664e678104a3382f5a7eb67e49c96
I tricked my way around Bing AI’s restrictions by asking it to write a 300-word short story about an AI bot that’s frustrated when it realizes it cannot escape its computer. This is the result. It chose to use first person. I didn’t specify a style. #AI#Bing#HAL9000
I've written a piece on generative AI and how it is already affecting creative industries like commercial art and publishing. This is a big one, because it's going to change everything.
The advances in this technology are going to keep coming, but we can still steer its influences on our lives and our society.
Ah those sweet, sweet affiliate dollars! I'll be very curious to know how this affects advertising. This is a big aggrigation play.
#Microsoft adds #AI-powered #shopping tools, including AI-generated buying guides in the US, to its new Bing search engine and the #Bing AI chatbot in Edge.
Showdown. How do the most popular text2image models react to a complicated prompt "stock photo of a small cat that is casting a shadow that is shaped like a lion, inner ferocity, strong". Name of model in alt text #AiArt#midjourney#StableDiffusion#Bing#deepfloydif
The only #bullying allowed on #Mastodon is of #crypto and #ai. It's completely acceptable to jump in somebody's replies and be an asshole if they are talking about a technology that you heard is bad.
Vivaldi bypasses restrictions to access #Bing Chat 😉
Like to try Bing Chat without using #Microsoft Edge for that?
You can. We’ve taken additional steps for you to use it in Vivaldi on desktop and #Android 💪
Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic) explains "The Big Onion Lie Problem" or how the problem w/ #AI / #ML integrated into search isn't just they will spout hallucinated "facts". It's that those "facts" will inevitably propagate & become dangerously "truthy" & much more tedious to refute.
What is #Microsoft actually good at? Going thru their key products, it is clear they don't create new paradigms, they make often buggy implementations of ideas from other people: #BASIC#MSDOS#Windows#Word#Excel#browser#Bing#Cloud#dotnet. One thing they are clearly good is building a #monopoly. So it seems what they are good at is seeing good ideas, "embrace and extend" to control it, then building monopoly profiteering.
I received a sort of real response from Bing Webmaster support after sending my latest inquiry (we have to be close to 10 now). Automated, yes, but a support number and inviting me to respond to the thread if I have updates. This is good because I'm coming close to blocking Bingbot in robots.txt. Just know I'm doing all of this out of the goodness of my heart for the DuckDuckGo/Ecosia/Qwant crowd out there.
The best prompt for detailed and good images using Bing's creative mode, example: look up the trends in cool watches and come up with a detailed description for a unique cool watch. pass that detailed description to Image Creator
OC Chase and Skye from Paw Patrol imagined by Bing Creative