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I understand that as of 2023, Microsoft with their Edge web browser has now integrated an AI LLM known as "Bing chat". I'd like to access it.

I looked at this link here that speaks of removing the bing AI icon, (though I don't want to remove it)

https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/bing/you-can-now-remove-the-bing-icon-from-microsoft-edge-no-registry-edit-required

It shows what it looks like

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But my edge browser looks like this

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As you can see there's no blue "bing chat / bing AI" icon there in my installation of Microsoft Edge.

This article https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/bing/how-to-get-started-with-bing-chat-on-microsoft-edge says that you must be signed into your Microsoft account. Well, I normally use Google's Chrome browser but i'm aware that Google have a concept of a "Google account", and if I go to google.com or gmail.com and log in then i'm signed into my google account and signed into any google service whether gmail or google docs or whatever. I don't know to what extent that does or doesn't parallel with Microsoft's concept of a microsoft account. I do have an address @outlook.com which I guess counts as a microsoft account.

I tried going to bing.com (bing being Microsoft's search engine that has been around since 2009 which I know is nothing to do with Bing chat). And I clicked signed in and managed to sign in using my outlook.com address.

And it then shows a chat link within the bing webpage.

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And I notice that in chrome that chat link shows in bing.com even when not logged into bing.com

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But I don't get a Bing icon in the Edge browser itself, so i'm not seeing Bing integrated with Edge.

I figured it looks a bit like not just an icon but an icon that is part of a side bar.

So I searched on bing search engine, about showing the sidebar

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But there is nothing about showing a side bar

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And doing ctrl-shift-/ isn't toggling showing sidebar / not, it's not doing anything. I just see no side bar. (let alone the bing icon i'm looking for!)

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Your Settings menu has many things different than that what Edge settings now has, I think your Edge is for some reason outdated (and not the most recent, v114.

Go in settings to the About Microsoft Edge page and check your version, and update if it's not updated.

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  • looks like it was related to that. I went to edge's "about", it showed 92, but said updating, and is now 114 and shows a side bar now with the bing icon. So maybe the windows installation is dated to 2021, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_10_version_history , v92 of edge is around 2021, learn.microsoft.com/en-us/deployedge/… and windows 10 comes bundled with Edge, and is an old Edge by default.
    – barlop
    Commented Jun 22, 2023 at 12:27

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