Microsoftrevealed an AI-powered Bing chatbotin February, dubbing it “the new Bing.”

But what can you actually do with the new Bing, and where does it fall short?

The new Bing chatbotis currently restricted to a waitlist.

Bing saying hello

If you haven’t already been granted access, you’ll need tojoin the waitlistfirst.

It can then process that information into several formats, including comparison tables.

With that example, the only rows of the table are “Display” and “Ports.”

Create a table comparing the specifications of the M2 MacBook Air and Surface Laptop 4

Opening a .CSV file in Excel with data pasted from Bing’s CSV export

You also still need to check the citations, because Bing isn’t perfect at interpreting web pages.

You’ll almost always get some funny results.

Again, you should always check Bing’s citations to see to it the information is correct.

Excel spreadsheet with table data from Bing

Opening a .CSV file in Excel with data pasted from Bing’s CSV export

Bing then provided a list of episodes with Arik Soong, citing IMDB and various fan wikis.

The art generator seems to fail more often than it works, though.

Maybe the lines could be arms?

“Data is a character from Star Trek: The Next Generation and its spin-off movies, not Star Trek: Enterprise12. He is an android created by Dr. Noonian Soong3, who is a descendant of Arik Soong, a geneticist who appeared in three episodes of Star Trek: Enterprise3. Are you looking for those episodes?"

It looks more like a person standing next to a tent.

Bing can easily handle these conversions, usually while explaining the logic involved.

Even when saying “this page only,” Bing will sometimes use data from similar web pages.

Bing ASCII car art

There’s a chance Microsoft has fixed those problems by the time you read this article.