Microsoft announced a set of principles aimed at fostering innovation and competition in the field of artificial intelligence (AI), particularly through AI-powered Bing and Edge.
These principles are seen as a way to address concerns about potential advantages in the field of AI.
This announcement details Microsoft’s commitment to transforming search and delivering more dynamic web experiences through AI innovation.
Key points of the announcement:
- Enhanced access and support for AI developers:
Microsoft provides developers around the world with broad access to AI models, development tools, and cloud computing infrastructure (Microsoft Azure).
- Focus on open standards and interoperability.
They aim to seamlessly integrate their AI tools and models with other platforms and solutions to foster collaboration and competition.
- Data privacy and security:
Microsoft is committed to responsible AI development, ensuring data privacy and security for both developers and users.
- Fairness and non-discrimination:
They pledge to develop and deploy AI systems that are fair, unbiased, and do not discriminate against individuals or groups.
“As we enter a new era based on artificial intelligence, we believe now is the right time to clarify the principles that will determine how we operate AI data center infrastructure and other critical AI assets around the world.” Brad Smith, President of Microsoft He made the remarks during a speech at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Reuters reported.
“By publishing these principles, we are committed to providing access to the broad range of technologies needed to enable organizations and individuals around the world to develop and use AI in ways that serve the public good. ” Smith added.
Bing and Edge powered by AI
Microsoft has revamped Bing and Edge with AI capabilities aimed at solving the problem of unanswered web searches.
By leveraging large-scale language models like OpenAI’s GPT-4, Bing now provides up-to-date, cited, and conversational results. This effort resulted in over 500 million chats and the creation of over 200 million images of him with Bing Image Creator, showing significant user engagement and daily active user growth.
Microsoft is planning to include third-party plugins in the Bing chat experience, and through partnerships with services like OpenTable and Wolfram-Alpha, it will be possible to take direct actions like booking a reservation or answering complex questions. make it possible. This move aims to create a more inclusive platform for developers and increase the usefulness of search.
Bing features richer, more visual answers, including charts, graphs, and enhanced formatting. We’re integrating Bing Image Creator into chat, supporting over 100 languages, and starting a redesign of Microsoft Edge for a more streamlined user experience. This update also introduces multimodal functionality, allowing visual search in chat.
Next generation AI-powered search
Microsoft is expanding the capabilities of Bing and Edge, including moving from limited to open preview, and eliminating trial waitlists. We’re also introducing a more visual search experience with rich image and video answers.
Enhanced chat and search with multi-session productivity, chat history, and persistent chat are also priorities. It also opens up platform features that developers and third parties can build on top of his Bing, allowing them to take action on queries and task completion.
Users will soon have access to chat history, the ability to share and export chats, improved summarization of long documents, and more efficient online content consumption.
Edge will introduce actions that help AI complete tasks, such as finding and playing movies and adjusting drafts of content based on user feedback.
These updates and principles reflect Microsoft’s commitment to foster innovation and competition in AI, emphasize responsible AI development, and expand access to AI-powered tools and services.
