ChatGPT on iOS adds support for Bing, but locks it behind a subscription
OpenAI released the ChatGPT app on iOS about a month and a half ago. It now supports Bing, but there's a catch.
Access to Microsoft's chatbot is exclusively available for ChatPlus subscribers. So you can't access it for free. In case you didn't know it, the ChatGPT Plus plan costs $20 per month, and offers some advantages including faster response times, priority access, etc.
Last month, Microsoft announced that Bing would be the default search engine for ChatGPT. The Redmond company has invested billions of dollars into OpenAI. As a result of this partnership, ChatGPT Plus on the web introduced Bing integration for users.
ChatGPT on iOS adds support for Bing
A recent update for the app, spotted by The Verge, brings support for Bing Search. It is not clear how the feature works, but according to the release notes, ChatGPT Plus users will be able to harness the power of Bing from within the app's settings. Head to the "Browsing" option under the New Features section in the app's settings, switch to the GPT-4 model, and select Browse with Bing. The feature is reportedly considered as a beta integration.
You are probably wondering how this could attract more users to the platform, especially considering that Bing's chatbot is available for free, so why should you pay 20 bucks a month to use it via a third-party app? I get it, but as I mentioned earlier, ChatGPT Plus has other benefits, so maybe the addition of Bing can be viewed as a bonus feature rather than a crowd puller.
OpenAI's chatbot has one big obvious flaw, its database is severely outdated. ChatGPT has not been trained with data beyond September 2021, which makes it quite tricky to use if you need to use it with newer information. It does not acknowledge any events that occurred after 2021. Microsoft Bing's AI on the other hand relies on information from the web to provide you with up-to-date answers. With the integration of Bing, ChatGPT is now capable of searching the internet to answer your queries about current events, and should provide more accurate results. Both chatbots are good, but as for which one is better, that is entirely up to what you may need it for. They have their own rules and limitations, and have a unique style in presenting the data.
The update also improves the Search History function in the ChatGPT iOS app, you may now tap on a result to jump to the corresponding part in the chat. The AI-powered app added support for Siri and Shortcuts a few weeks ago, along with an improved layout on iPad to match the screen size of the tablets.
Want to try it out on your iPhone? Download ChatGPT for iOS from the App Store. There is still no word about an official ChatGPT app for Android devices. The integration of Bing could be beneficial for both companies, as OpenAI's chatbot can now pull information from the web in real-time, and Bing search will get more users on board. It's an interesting strategy, and could help the Redmond company outdo its bitter rival, Google Search, in the long-term.
Doesn’t Windows 8 know that www. or http:// are passe ?
Well it is a bit difficulty to distinguish between name.com domains and files for instance.
I know a service made by google that is similar to Google bookmarks.
http://www.google.com/saved
@Ashwin–Thankful you delighted my comment; who knows how many “gamers” would have disagreed!
@Martin
The comments section under this very article (3 comments) is identical to the comments section found under the following article:
https://www.ghacks.net/2023/08/15/netflix-is-testing-game-streaming-on-tvs-and-computers/
Not sure what the issue is, but have seen this issue under some other articles recently but did not report it back then.
Omg a badge!!!
Some tangible reward lmao.
It sucks that redditors are going to love the fuck out of it too.
With the cloud, there is no such thing as unlimited storage or privacy. Stop relying on these tech scums. Purchase your own hardware and develop your own solutions.
This is a certified reddit cringe moment. Hilarious how the article’s author tries to dress it up like it’s anything more than a png for doing the reddit corporation’s moderation work for free (or for bribes from companies and political groups)
Almost al unlmited services have a real limit.
And this comment is written on the dropbox article from August 25, 2023.
First comment > @ilev said on August 4, 2012 at 7:53 pm
For the God’s sake, fix the comments soon please! :[
Yes. Please. Fix the comments.
With Google Chrome, it’s only been 1,500 for some time now.
Anyone who wants to force me in such a way into buying something that I can get elsewhere for free will certainly never see a single dime from my side. I don’t even know how stupid their marketing department is to impose these limits on users instead of offering a valuable product to the paying faction. But they don’t. Even if you pay, you get something that is also available for free elsewhere.
The algorithm has also become less and less savvy in terms of e.g. English/German translations. It used to be that the bot could sort of sense what you were trying to say and put it into different colloquialisms, which was even fun because it was like, “I know what you’re trying to say here, how about…” Now it’s in parts too stupid to translate the simplest sentences correctly, and the suggestions it makes are at times as moronic as those made by Google Translations.
If this is a deep-learning AI that learns from users’ translations and the phrases they choose most often – which, by the way, is a valuable, moneys worthwhile contribution of every free user to this project: They invest their time and texts, thereby providing the necessary data for the AI to do the thing as nicely as they brag about it in the first place – alas, the more unprofessional users discovered the translator, the worse the language of this deep-learning bot has become, the greater the aggregate of linguistically illiterate users has become, and the worse the language of this deep-learning bot has become, as it now learns the drivel of every Tom, Dick and Harry out there, which is why I now get their Mickey Mouse language as suggestions: the inane language of people who can barely spell the alphabet, it seems.
And as a thank you for our time and effort in helping them and their AI learn, they’ve lowered the limit from what was once 5,000 to now 1,500…? A big “fuck off” from here for that! Not a brass farthing from me for this attitude and behaviour, not in a hundred years.