# How Bing Chat is Changing the Way We Search and Create
Bing Chat is a new feature that lets you interact with Bing’s AI chatbot in a conversational format. You can ask Bing Chat anything, from factual questions to creative requests, and get informative, visual, and engaging responses. Bing Chat uses GPT-4 and has internet access, so it can provide up-to-date and accurate answers from web sources. Bing Chat also lets you generate images with DALL-E, choose a personality style, share responses, give feedback, and more.
In this article, I’ll share some of the reasons why Bing Chat is a game-changer for search and creation, and how you can use it to enhance your productivity and creativity.
## Bing Chat is more than just a search engine
Unlike traditional search engines that only return a list of links or snippets, Bing Chat gives you summarized answers in natural language. You can also ask follow-up questions to refine your results or dive deeper into a topic. For example, if you ask Bing Chat “Who is the president of France?”, it will tell you “Emmanuel Macron” and also show you some relevant facts about him. If you want to know more about his political party or his wife, you can simply ask Bing Chat and it will answer you.
Bing Chat also supports multiple languages, such as English, 中文, 日本語, Español, Français or Deutsch. You can switch languages anytime by typing “/language” followed by the language code. For example, “/language fr” will switch to French. You can also ask Bing Chat to translate any text for you by typing “/translate” followed by the text.
## Bing Chat is a powerful creative tool
Bing Chat is not only good at answering questions, but also at generating content. You can ask Bing Chat to help you with any project from meal planning to gift ideas. You can also ask Bing Chat to create a story, poem, essay, song, or picture for you. For example, if you ask Bing Chat “write a poem about love”, it will generate a poem like this:
```
Love is more than a word
It’s a feeling that fills the heart
It’s a bond that never breaks
It’s a light that never fades
Love is more than a kiss
It’s a touch that soothes the soul
It’s a warmth that melts the cold
It’s a fire that never dies
Love is more than a gift
It’s a gesture that shows you care
It’s a sacrifice that proves you’re there
It’s a treasure that never loses value
Love is more than a word
It’s the essence of life
```
Bing Chat also lets you generate images with DALL-E, a neural network that can create images from text descriptions. You can ask Bing Chat to draw anything you can imagine by typing “/draw” followed by the description. For example, “/draw an elephant wearing sunglasses” will produce an image like this:
## Bing Chat is fun and customizable
Bing Chat is not only smart and helpful, but also fun and entertaining. You can ask Bing Chat to tell you a joke, a riddle, or a trivia fact. You can also play games with Bing Chat, such as tic-tac-toe or hangman. For example, if you type “/game hangman”, Bing Chat will start a game like this:
```
I have chosen a word with 5 letters.
_ _ _ _ _
Guess a letter or the whole word.
```
Bing Chat also lets you choose a personality style for your chatbot. You can choose from friendly, professional, humorous, sarcastic, or random. You can switch styles anytime by typing “/style” followed by the style name. For example, “/style sarcastic” will make Bing Chat more snarky and witty.
## How to use Bing Chat
To use Bing Chat, you need to have an account on the Open AI website and then use their API key to access it. You can sign up for free and get 100 credits per month to use Bing Chat. You can also upgrade to a paid plan for more credits and features.
To start chatting with Bing Chat, simply go to https://bing.com/chat and enter your API key. Then you can type anything in the chat box and press enter to send it. You can also use voice input by clicking on the microphone icon.
Source: Conversation with Bing, 30/4/2023
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