Microsoft has revealed plans to integrate OpenAI’s DALL-E 3 image generator into its chat feature, allowing users to produce images by typing brief descriptions.
Set for a release to ChatGPT’s enterprise clientele in October, the exact launch date for DALL-E 3 on Bing remains unspecified. Additionally, Bing is enhancing its shopping capabilities, prompting users with tailored questions to help them identify the ideal product.
Users can also discover and apply discount codes. Benefiting from recalling past conversations, Bing offers more personalized responses. Bing was an early beneficiary of Microsoft’s collaboration with OpenAI, with the company aiming to further fortify the platform.
Microsoft earlier aimed to rejuvenate Bing in February by infusing it with generative AI capabilities from OpenAI’s GPT.
Consequently, Bing now operates as a chatbot, addressing questions, highlighting news, devising specialized “buying guides”, and more.
Earlier this month, Microsoft AI experts inadvertently leaked a vast amount of sensitive information, including private keys and passwords, while uploading an open-source dataset to GitHub.
Cloud security startup, Wiz, discovered this oversight while investigating unintentional cloud data exposure.
They found a GitHub repository from Microsoft’s AI team that had instructions for downloading AI models for image recognition via an Azure Storage link.
Wiz discovered that the provided URL unintentionally granted access to the entire storage, revealing 38 terabytes of confidential data.
This breach encompassed personal backups from two Microsoft employees’ computers, passwords to Microsoft services, secret keys, and a plethora of internal Microsoft Teams chats.
“AI unlocks huge potential for tech companies,” Wiz co-founder and CTO Ami Luttwak told TechCrunch. “However, as data scientists and engineers race to bring new AI solutions to production, the massive amounts of data they handle require additional security checks and safeguards.”
