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treeskneesyesterday at 9:07 PM2 repliesview on HN

Microsoft Copilot uses their own model that is originally based on GPT-4 if I’m not mistaken.

But, it’s mostly a RAG tool, “grounded in web” as they say. When you give Copilot a query, it uses the model to reword your query into an optimal Bing search query, fetches the results, and then crafts output using the model.

I commend their attempt to use Bing as a source of data to keep up to date and reduce hallucinations, especially in an enterprise setting where users may be more sensitive to false information, however as a result some of the answers it gives can only be as good as the Bing search results.


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Quarrelsometoday at 1:40 AM

Bing isn't terrible though, is it? DuckDuckGo uses it, or at least used to, and that trade off was fine most of the time.

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FrustratedMonkyyesterday at 9:35 PM

Seems like with their own resources, and also owning part of GPT, they should be able to pivot and at least make a programming tool equal to Chat GPT.