Skype has been around for a long time as one of the pioneers of voice and video calling over the internet. But in recent years, it has faced stiff competition from other messaging apps like WhatsApp and Telegram, which offer more features and privacy options. However, Skype is not giving up without a fight. The service, owned by Microsoft, has just introduced a new AI-powered Bing chatbot that can make your conversations more fun, informative and productive.

The new Bing chatbot is integrated into Skype chat and can be accessed by typing @Bing in any group conversation. You can ask it anything you would normally ask on Bing.com or Microsoft Edge, such as trivia questions, news headlines, weather forecasts, flight and hotel information, etc. But that’s not all. The Bing chatbot can also generate ideas, and recommendations and draft messages for you based on your preferences and context.

For example, if you are planning a trip with your friends on Skype group chat, you can tag @Bing and ask it to suggest some destinations, activities and attractions based on your budget and interests. The Bing chatbot will then provide you with relevant web links, images and videos to help you decide. According to Microsoft, you can also ask it to book flights and hotels for you directly from Skype using Microsoft Pay.

Another cool feature of the new Bing chatbot is that it can help you write better messages by offering suggestions based on natural language processing (NLP) technology. For instance, if you want to send a birthday greeting to your friend on Skype but don’t know what to say, you can type @Bing followed by “birthday message” and it will generate some options for you to choose from or edit as you like.

The new Bing chatbot is not only useful but also entertaining. It can tell jokes, stories, poems and even rap lyrics if you ask it nicely. It can also play games with you such as trivia quizzes or tic-tac-toe. And if you are feeling bored or lonely, you can just have a casual chat with it about anything.

The new Bing chatbot is a game-changer for Skype users who want to have more engaging and creative conversations with their contacts. It also gives Skype an edge over other messaging apps like WhatsApp and Telegram which do not have such an advanced AI assistant built-in.

However, the new Bing chatbot is not perfect yet. With our editor, Leo’s time playing around with it, he noticed it still has some limitations that need to be addressed in future updates. For example:

• The Bing chatbot cannot listen to audio messages or access photos and videos in chat.
• The Bing chatbot may not always understand complex queries or slang terms.
• The Bing chatbot may sometimes give inaccurate or inappropriate responses due to data sources or algorithms.

Despite these drawbacks, the new Bing chatbot is still an impressive addition to Skype that shows how AI technology can enhance social messaging platforms. If you want to learn how to use Bing in Skype yourself, you can visit our guide here.

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Skype is a messaging service acquired by Microsoft in 2011 that offers text messaging, voice calls and video calls over the Internet, as compared to traditional messaging via SMS. Over the past 13 years, the service has gradually lost its popularity, primarily to Zoom, Whatsapp and Telegram. But recently, Microsoft has breathed in some fresh AI blood into Skype, with its new Bing ChatGPT integrated into the messaging service.

So how do you add Bing ChatGPT to Skype? Here are the 5 simple steps.

Step 1: Sign up for the Bing Waitlist

If you are already inside the Bing Preview, proceed to step 2. Currently, to use Bing ChatGPT on Skype, you must be selected to be part of the Bing Preview and to join the preview, you have to sign up for the waitlist here.

Once you received an email from Microsoft that notifies you that you are selected to try out the Bing Preview, then you may proceed to the next step.

Step 2: Download the Skype app on Windows

If you already have the Skype app on your PC, proceed to step 3. You need to download the Skype app on your Windows 10 or 11 PC here.

After a successful download, double-click on the download file and install the program. Upon successful installation, proceed to the next step.

Step 3: Log into Skype

Log in to Skype with either your Skype account or Microsoft account. 

Step 4: Add Bing to your Skype contacts

Go to “New Chat > New Chat > Search “Bing” > Bing “ to create a conversation with Bing. Say “Hi” to Bing and he will be automatically added to your Skype contacts!

Step 5: Add Bing to your Group Chats (Optional)

Go to your Group Chat, and select the setting gears icon next to the group name, then “Add Participants > Bing”, and now Bing is officially in the group chat! To chat with Bing in the group chat, simply add @Bing, at the beginning of your message.

And that’s all, you can now chat with the New Bing ChatGPT in Skype! Bing can also help summarise group chats upon request, as well as give suggestions for which restaurants to go to with your friends. Not to mention that you can also use Skype on Android and iOS with the apps available on the Google Play Store and Apple App Store.

To learn more about why the new Bing ChatGPT is a game-changer for social messaging, you can head on over to our article here.

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After much fanfare about Bing’s new Chat functionality on Desktop, Microsoft officially announced today that Bing’s ChatGPT functionality is now available on iOS, Android, and Skype. Currently, the new Bing is only available for preview for those signed up for preview testing via the Microsoft Bing waitlist, and if you are interested in trying out the new Bing, you can join the waitlist here.

Yusuf Mehdi, Corporate Vice President & Consumer Chief Marketing Officer of Microsoft announced that Bing’s ChatGPT service is available on the company’s Bing and Microsoft Edge mobile apps from today onwards. Both the Bing and Edge mobile apps are available on Android’s Google Play Store and Apple’s iOS App Store. 

In addition to the new Chat service, Microsoft has also redesigned Bing with a fresh look and experience. As noted from the official announcement:

“Tapping the Bing icon at the bottom will invoke a chat session, where you can engage in all the same ways you can from the desktop. Ask simple or complex questions and receive answers and citations. Choose how you want your answers displayed – bullet points, text or simplified responses. Explore the Bing chat experience to refine your query or compose an email, poem or list.”

Besides expanding availability to more devices besides desktops, Microsoft has also added a new much requested functionality to Bing – voice search. Available on mobile and on desktop, voice search provides more versatility in how users can deliver prompts and receive answers from Bing.

Our news writer, Leo also had the opportunity to try out the chat voice functionality himself, and besides being able to translate from speech to text, the search engine was able to do text-to-speech as well on the Android Microsoft Edge app.

Aside from mobile use, Microsoft has added Bing, the new chat and search engine based on GPT-4, to the company’s messaging service Skype as well. Bing on Skype can be described as similar to Discord command bots, but instead of complex commands, you can now easily chat and prompt it like how you use ChatGPT. 

To use Bing on Skype, Microsoft explains that Skype users can simply add Bing to the group, as you would any Skype contact, and now you can ask Bing to answer questions and provide information for the entire group. 

To illustrate, Microsoft has given an example below:

“If your family is chatting about the next family reunion, you can simply ask Bing for suggestions on travel destinations, expected weather forecasts and interesting events around your time of travel, and everyone in the chat will get access to the results. When you are catching up with friends, you can ask Bing to simply fetch information from the web, for example, the latest news or last night’s award shows to add to your conversation.”

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