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Not as cool, but there for the lazy: install the Bing app on your phone (I guess you need to be accepted into the beta first?). I use it as a slow-thinking alternative to Google Assistant that usually gives much better answers.



The Bing app isn't as responsive as ChatGPT. I asked it a slightly question about my taxes and it "binged" something weird and gave me a non-answer generic response.


I’ve noticed that bing chat is better if you instruct it not to search anything, that way it will use the model knowledge. I’ve learned to use the model knowledge or the web search results summary depending on what I want. But ChatGPT is still way better for model knowledge because it has fewer restrictions.

I wish they would make this distinction clearer in the UI. Most of the time it can answer without resorting to search, I think it would be better if the user explicitly specifies that they need web results.


It definitely has a web search bias, no surprise, but that's kind of its superpower too. It lacks the snappy responses that Assistant can give, especially with routine questions like the weather.




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