Microsoft ChatGPT Live Event: All the big AI news for Bing, Windows, and more

Microsoft is ready to unveil some exciting new projects, most of which may be related to ChatGPT, the powerful new automated chatbot that has captured the imagination of consumers, students, businesses, and anyone with a job they could replace.

This is, for now, just a guess. Microsoft invited me to campus in Redmond, Washington, with more than just the promise of cool stuff, time (from an audience perspective) with company CEO Satya Nadella, and hands-on experiences with everything the company unveils.

While Microsoft has been silent about the purpose of this secret event, which wasn’t even a live broadcast, most of the tags point to ChatGPT. This comes just weeks after Microsoft invested $10 billion in OpenAI’s chatbot. In addition, Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, confirmed the news when He tweeted a picture of himself and Nadella On the Microsoft campus with the caption, “Hi from Redmond! Excited for the event tomorrow.”

The event has all the attributes of planting a strategic flag with AI as the newly claimed territory. Microsoft can announce ChatGPT integration not only with the expected Bing search engine, but with Windows 11 (or Windows 12), Office, Teams, and the Edge browser.

We’ll know more starting at 10am PT / 6pm GMT (or 4am EST on February 8th, for those in Australia). The keyword should last an hour and could be full of ads. Stay here for all the latest updates.

I wonder if Sam Altman, the brains behind OpenAI and ChatGPT, knows how to keep secrets? Here’s his Twitter post that may have prompted Microsoft to let the cat out of the bag about the event a little early.

There wasn’t much to go on, but having Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Altman in one place, and the latter not only mentioning their location but not mentioning the event, pretty much blew Microsoft’s chance at a big surprise reveal.

Well, CEOs do CEO stuff, and we just sit back and watch.

Well, Bellevue, which is right next door to Seattle and not far from Microsoft’s headquarters in Redmond, Washington, didn’t seem too excited about today’s event. It’s cold and rainy here since yesterday.

I’d like to ask ChatGPT why it’s raining so much in Seattle, but the popular chatbot is now flooded and I won’t be able to access it until OpenAI scales up. Maybe the $10 billion that Microsoft is spending on it will help.

Anyway, we’re almost two hours away from Microsoft’s big reveal. I will soon be heading to the Microsoft campus to register and get a place. Just remember that there is no live streaming, so this Live blog will be one of the only ways to find out what Microsoft plans to do with ChatGPT.

We got the closest thing to a preview of what Microsoft could have today earlier this week when a Bing user briefly got a copy of the search engine with ChatGPT integration.

Student and designer Owen Yin (below) was treated to ChatGPT-enhanced Bing for a short while, during which time he discovered that you get 1,000 more characters for asking open-ended questions than you would with traditional search engines. This all sounds somewhat familiar.

One screenshot shows research focusing on a young child’s arts and crafts ideas, “using only cardboard boxes, plastic bottles, paper, and string.” This is the exact kind of request that ChatGPT currently likes to answer, albeit with varying results.

We’ll almost certainly see demos on these lines at today’s Microsoft event, but we’re expecting more, too.

We are now on our way to the Microsoft campus, just ahead of the mysterious event. A reminder that it will start in less than an hour at 10am PT / 6pm GMT (which is 4am AEST on February 8th, for early rising Australians).

There is no official live stream, so the best way to catch up on all the AI ​​news – and we expect a lot of it – is right here with us on this live blog. Since Google has arranged its own event for tomorrow, today could be one of the biggest days we’ve seen in tech this year.

After a short drive from Bellevue on a bus packed with some of the biggest names in tech media, we arrive at the Executive Briefing Center at Microsoft Campus Building 33.

Before they let us into the event hall, we were in a large holding area eating breakfast, sipping coffee, and sympathizing with the strangeness of this event.

No one said yes to this event and he knew what to expect. Now that we’re doing it (it’s ChatGPT integration), we’re wondering just how big Microsoft’s aspirations are.

This is clearly more than just Bing integration. OpenAI’s ChatGPT powers can be integrated into a variety of Mcirosoft products. Windows now appears to be locked, as is Office. However, there is a teaching that we will be overwhelmed by something greater.

We’ll know all the answers in 35 minutes or so.