Bing Chat gets a makeover. Microsoft’s conversational agent is enhanced with new well-regarded features. Fixed bugs, relevance of answers on improved news, reinforced mathematical skills… Here are all the new features.
Backed by its massive investments in OpenAI, Microsoft has integrated a chatbot into its famous search engine. Based on the GPT-4 model, Bing Chat is able to generate a wide variety of texts based on the queries you submit to it. In particular, he has the ability to roam the Internet to feed his answers. And recently, Microsoft has enriched it with new features that we will detail below.
It is the mathematicians who will be happy. Microsoft Bing Chat now supports LaTeX typography. What allow in particular to display the equations in a completely clear form. “We have integrated support for LaTeX typography, allowing Bing Chat to correctly display complex mathematical expressions. Enough to make the chatbot an even more useful tool for learning mathematical concepts or writing technical research articles”welcomes Microsoft.
Bing Chat: what are the new features of Microsoft’s chatbot?
Additionally, the latest update improved Bing Chat’s responses to hot news. “We’ve taken steps to help Bing give better answers if you ask questions about the news (for example: What’s today’s top story?)”says Microsoft.
The Redmond giant has also fixed recurring bugs reported by users. In this case, conversations on Bing Chat were sometimes interrupted for no reason, the chatbot indicating for example “I’m sorry but I prefer not to continue this conversation”. Microsoft promised that “this should now happen less frequently”. Here are the other bugs the company has addressed:
- Reduce instances where Bing Chat triggers unnecessary duplicate searches.
- Reduce errors that caused Bing Chat to not respond to queries.
