Bing AI Chatbot Takes Center Stage on Microsoft Edge Sidebar!

The Bing AI-enabled chatbot is released by Microsoft through a sidebar in its Edge browser. This feature was initially exclusive to Edge's dev versions, but it's now available to stable versions of Microsoft Edge on both Windows and macOS. The big Bing button is located at the top left of Edge sidebar. Just by hovering over or clicking on it, you can initiate the latest Bing chatbot experience.

The AI Chatbot takes the context of the page that you are viewing on the browser and you can perform many tasks with it. In order to do that, you first need to allow Microsoft to access your browser web content so to enable chat responses about your web page, select text for editing assistance, generate page summaries and more.

You can ask any complex question and it will give you a rich response with all the details, images, search links, article links, news, similar questions around the original question. Interesting thing is that you can ask a question up to 2000 characters long.

Along with chat, you can utilize the compose feature of it where you can ask the chatbot to write anything for you for a variety of purposes such as a Paragraph, Email, Blog post, or Ideas. You can also set the tone of your content to be Professional, Casual, Enthusiastic, Informational, and Funny. Depends on what tone you select, the text will be written accordingly. You can also choose the length of the generated text. You can keep that Short, Medium or Long length.

The Insight tab on Bing AI Chatbot brings more to what you are doing on the browser. If you are searching about something, you will get very relevant information along with the search results. Following screenshot shows the insight functionality upon searching about Satya Nadela, CEO of Microsoft. 

The new AI Chatbot in Bing sidebar introduced in Edge offers a glimpse into the potential direction of Microsoft's AI capabilities for not just Windows and Office, but also other areas. Microsoft has recently introduced Copilot based on Generative AI for its office 365 applications. Google is also planning similar ChatGPT-like AI capabilities in its Gmail and Docs to stay in the AI race with Microsoft.

As AI technology continues to evolve, it is not surprising to see tech giants such as Microsoft and Google competing to offer more advanced and innovative features for their users. It will be interesting to see how these AI capabilities will shape the future of productivity and work.