Visual Search now live in Bing Chat
You can now upload photos to Bing Chat and ask the AI search engine a question based on that images.
What it looks like. Here is a video of it in action on the mobile interface of Bing Chat:
Here is how it works on the desktop interface of Bing Chat:
Why we care. Visual search is a big part of search in general, Bing Search added this feature back in 2018, while Google has Google Lens. Google also just rolled out Google Lens in Bard last week. Bing Chat was testing this feature for over a month.
If you want to ask Bing Chat more details about what you are seeing or on a screenshot you have access to, you can now do so.
Bridging visual and search with AI can be a lot of fun but don’t trust everything you see on these AI search features, they still can hallucinate.