Microsoft said that it’s rolling out more visual features to its Bing Chat AI chatbot, including mobile, where Microsoft’s AI vision is now becoming more cohesive. It’s a quiet effort to essentially phase out the traditional search box and make search more conversational.
In many ways, the evolution of AI has been like the evolution of the Internet: largely text-based, with later additions of graphics and then video. So, too, is Bing: Microsoft originally planned to add visual cards, ads and graphics, but scaled them down after launch – possibly because users didn’t like them. Microsoft also took a similar approach with the more creative elements of its Bing chatbot: it leaned strongly into the creative elements at launch, dialled them down significantly after long, weird conversations, than slowly turned…
