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Daily Crunch: Microsoft waives its waitlist and opens up its AI-powered Bing chatbot to all
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Daily Crunch: Microsoft waives its waitlist and opens up its AI-powered Bing chatbot to all by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch
You can play with Microsoft’s Bing GPT-4 chatbot right now, no waitlist necessary
Microsoft appears to have removed the waitlist for its new Bing Chat feature, so now anyone can sign up and use the GPT-4-powered chatbot. Windows Central spotted that if you try and sign up for the new Bing, it will simply unlock immediately. The Verge has tested this on multiple Microsoft accounts, and access was granted immediately with an email confirmation.
If you want to try and get access to the new Bing, then head over to bing.com/new and hit the “join waitlist” button and sign in with your Microsoft Account. You should get access immediately.
We asked Microsoft whether it has fully removed the waitlist or if it’s a bug, and communications director Caitlin Roulston said, “During this preview period, we are running various tests…
SpaceX offers $200 per month ‘global roaming’ internet service to Starlink waitlist clients
It appears SpaceX is preparing to offer global roaming. As first reported by PCMag, the company recently began emailing customers in countries where Starlink service isn’t available yet to invite them to try a new $200 per month package that allows its terminals to provide internet access “from almost anywhere on land in the world.”
NEWS: Starlink is testing a new “Global Roaming Service” for $200/mo, plus the standard $599 for Hardware. Will they offer this as an add-on for $65/mo like portability? @RealTeslaNorth@MarcusTuck3https://t.co/c2vQhtOUL8pic.twitter.com/kiLMsMkhDY
— Nathan Owens (@VirtuallyNathan) February 17, 2023
As The Verge notes, it’s not clear how SpaceX will follow through on the promise to provide internet from nearly anywhere. Despite the company’s growing constellation of small satellites, it’s still waiting to obtain regulatory approval to offer internet access in many key markets, including India and Pakistan. To that point, the email SpaceX sent out notes global roaming services are “contingent on regulatory approvals.” It adds customers may experience “brief periods of poor connectivity, or none at all” while it works to expand its satellite network. Potential customers should also be prepared to pay an import fee for their Starlink terminal, on top of the kit’s $599 price.
SpaceX already offers a few, more limited roaming options. Most notably, there’s the company’s Portability package for existing residential users, which allows those customers to use their Starlink terminal while traveling within their home continent. At $25 per month on top of the company’s $110 monthly subscription fee, the package is cheaper than the global roaming service SpaceX recently began emailing potential customers about, but the company requires those who spend “an extended period of time” away from home to change their permanent address.
The new Bing waitlist is long. Here’s how to get earlier access
You can jump the waitlist for Microsoft’s AI Bing chat. Here’s how.
Microsoft made a big splash last week by unveiling an AI enhanced Bing. Its search site has long been the butt of jokes, with Google dominating the space, but people took notice of this new flavor of web search from Microsoft, which can do research for you as well as create stories, itineraries, menus, emails, and more.
The new features are the result of a collaboration between Microsoft and OpenAI, the creator of the controversial ChatGPT service, which may result in some real competition for Google. The feature is not available to all web users yet, but you can sign up for the waiting list to test it, as shown below. Here’s how to access the new Bing faster, according to Michael Muchmore on Mashable’s sibling site PCMag.com.
Try ‘the new Bing’ ahead of the official launch. How to preview the AI-powered search engine.
But the list is quite long: Microsoft corporate vice president Yusuf Mehdi recently tweeted that millions have joined the waitlist and outlined the rollout process.
How to Try the New ChatGPT-Enhanced Bing
Credit: Microsoft
For now, you’ll need to join a waitlist to try out the Microsoft Bing ChatGPT integration. Head to this website, log in with your Microsoft account, and you’re on the list. After that you’ll see an option to Get Faster Access.
Microsoft has a few suggestions for how best to move up the list. Here are the steps (which the utility download on the Faster Access page automates) that Microsoft says will get you the new features faster:
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Make Edge your default browser (it runs on Windows obviously, but also macOS and Linux).
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Make Bing your default search engine.
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Make MSN your default homepage.
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Pin Bing.com to the Taskbar.
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Add Microsoft-recommended sites to Favorites.
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Create a desktop shortcut for Microsoft Edge.
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Download the Bing app for your mobile phone.
MacOS users, of course, can’t get those Windows defaults, but when I tried the Fast Access link on a MacBook, it took me to the Bing wallpaper, so that may speed up access. And in Firefox it adds the Bing extension to that alternative browser. Apple users can also install the mobile app on their iPhone.
Getting the New Bing in the Edge Web Browser
Credit: Microsoft
If you’ve paid attention to the announcements from Microsoft, you know that the new AI chat and text-generation capabilities are also coming to the Edge web browser, which is available for Linux and macOS as well as for Windows. Remember, the new AI features will be built into Edge as well as available on the Bing website and mobile app.
As with Windows, there’s an Edge Insider program that gives users a taste of new features coming to future versions of the software. I thought installing the preview build would get me the new AI search, but my waiting list status was the same in all three preview builds of the browser.
Credit: Microsoft
So it turns out there’s no shortcut to avoid the waiting list. But if you follow the steps that Microsoft suggests, you should get the new search tools faster.
Even More Options
For more background, read about the other advantages of Bing and the Edge web browser. Plus, read about alternative search engines and alternative web browsers.
Daily Crunch: In ‘an early experimental program,’ OpenAI opens waitlist for GPT Professional
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Daily Crunch: In ‘an early experimental program,’ OpenAI opens waitlist for GPT Professional by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch
Why members-only club Chief, with a waitlist of 60K, hates the term ‘girl boss’
Chief co-founders Carolyn Childers and Lindsay Kaplan started the company because they had experienced first-hand being women executives without a ton of support. They created a community of female leaders that is now 20,000 strong, with 60,000 sitting on waitlists, but just don’t call these women ‘girl bosses.’ The two women appeared at TechCrunch Disrupt […]
Why members-only club Chief, with a waitlist of 60K, hates the term ‘girl boss’ by Ron Miller originally published on TechCrunch