The search engine could put the AI company in competition with Google.
OpenAI launches ChatGPT-based search engine that could affect Internet traffic flow in search for news, sports results and other timely information.
The artificial intelligence (AI) company reported Thursday that it is launching a search function for paying ChatGPT users, but will eventually expand it to all ChatGPT users.
In July it released a preview version for a small group of users and editors. The original version of ChatGPT, released in 2022, was trained on huge amounts of online text, but couldn’t answer questions about current events that were not in your training data.
This feature could put OpenAI in direct competition with Google, which in May upended its search engine with AI-generated written summaries which now frequently appear at the top of search results.
It could be the end of Google as we know it
The objective of these summaries is quickly respond to user queryso you don’t have to click on a link and visit another website for more information.
Google’s image change came after a year of testing with a small group of users, but its use continued leading to false results that show the risks of handing over the search for information to AI chatbots prone to making errors known as hallucinations.
The move by AI companies to have their chatbots offer news compiled by professional journalists has alarmed some media outlets. The ‘New York Times’ It is one of the media that has sued OpenAI and its business partner Microsoft for infringement of copyright. News Corp, publisher of the Wall Street Journal and the New York Post, sued another artificial intelligence search engine, Perplexity, in early October.
On Thursday, OpenAI published on his blog that Its new search engine had been created with the help of partners in the information sector.n, including The Associated Press and News Corp. According to the company, it will include links to sources such as news and blogs. It was unclear whether the links would correspond to the original source of the information presented by the chatbot.
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