OpenAI Develops Web Search Product in Challenge To Google (theinformation.com) 15
OpenAI has been developing a web search product that would bring the Microsoft-backed startup into more direct competition with Google, The Information reports, citing a person with knowledge of OpenAI's plans. From the report: The search service would be partly powered by Bing, this person said. The move to launch a search app comes a year after Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said his company would "make Google dance" by incorporating artificial intelligence from OpenAI into Microsoft's Bing search engine. That partnership has failed to dent Google's search dominance. It isn't clear whether the search product would be separate from ChatGPT, the chatbot OpenAI runs and which also uses Bing's index of the web to answer some questions. OpenAI could be looking to speed up the service, which can be slow because it also does tasks like proofreading and summarizing documents.
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"boners"
I expect this to be the best post I read on Slashdot all day
This piece must be written by OpenAI (Score:3)
It contains zero tech news and maximum bullshit.
Excellent result, Sam.
Shit link (Score:5, Insightful)
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Don't push paywalled websites please, it's no fun to NOT be able to read. Maybe there are alternative sources
Also the link in TFS doesn't have the domain after it, I know I can just mouse over it but it's a feature us long time users have grown used to... I'm old damn it!
Bing (Score:2)
Does anyone use Bing? I tried a few times in the past but I always ended up with something else. I do my best to avoid Google, but the truth is that I use it when necessary because it actually is pretty good.
What is your experience with Bing?
You can AI my search all you want but if you don't have then answer you cannot just make it up.
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Nope. DuckDuckGo or nothing nowadays. Shopping is now google's search front end. I'm not shopping, I'm looking for information.
Search engines don't need AI. They just need to index documents and provide a good text match + fuzzy match.
If I wanted an AI assistant, that would be different. I don't need "AI generated search results" when I'm looking for documents/sites/pages/ etc
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The new open source https://stract.com/ [stract.com] is pretty cool. Results are def novel, try it.
Re: Bing (Score:2)
Nobody uses Bing (except for porn), and you're probably looking at the reason Microsoft was so heavily involved in the recent corporate shakeup at OpenAI. They need a way to stop sucking in the search space and possibly were already aware of this project.
I use Bing (Score:2)
And I don't like the way it's been putting up AI-generated results in a box and making them look like actual search results. Then you click on it thinking it will take you to a useful article and instead it gives you AI-generated bullshit. Basically when they've managed to do is create an AI which can figure out the form of the thing you're looking for and present it to you, but not the substance; they're SEOing themselves.
Also: Phind.com (Score:2)
As someone here pointed out a few weeks ago ...
There is also phind.com [phind.com], which does not require that you create an account.
The references are provided on the right sidebar, and they are cited just like footnotes, with URLs so you can check them yourselves.