OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Search, Competing With Google and Microsoft (cnbc.com) 21
OpenAI on Thursday launched a search feature within ChatGPT, its viral chatbot, that positions the high-powered AI startup to better compete with search engines like Google, Microsoft's Bing and Perplexity. From a report: ChatGPT search offers up-to-the-minute sports scores, stock quotes, news, weather and more, powered by real-time web search and partnerships with news and data providers, according to the company. It began beta-testing the search engine, called SearchGPT, in July.
The release could have implications for Google as the dominant search engine. Since the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022, Alphabet investors have been concerned that OpenAI could take market share from Google in search by giving consumers new ways to seek information online.
The release could have implications for Google as the dominant search engine. Since the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022, Alphabet investors have been concerned that OpenAI could take market share from Google in search by giving consumers new ways to seek information online.
Wait, doesn't Microsoft own OpenAI? (Score:2)
Or at least a controlling chunk of it?
I wonder what Microsoft thinks of this.
Re:Wait, doesn't Microsoft own OpenAI? (Score:5, Interesting)
I use DuckDuckGo for about 90% of my searches. DuckDuckGo uses Bing for its results. It does just fine about 90% of the time. If I'm not getting the results I think I should get, I go to google.
So, yeah, while admittedly small, DuckDuckGo stats are still impressive to me:
The search engine is predicted to serve over 30 billion private searches in 2023. Its user base now tops 100 million worldwide.
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No. They invested into openAI. But because of how openAI is structured, that gives them very little control over openAI. It just gives them access to openAI technology integration into their own products.
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What did you think OpenAI is using as it's backend as the search API? Google and/or Bing, most likely.
Forget it (Score:2)
Unless they massively improved their artificial moron, this will not work well. The last times I asked for sources for its claims, it pretty much failed. I had to take some keywords and search myself (not with Google).
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Unless they massively improved their artificial moron, this will not work well. The last times I asked for sources for its claims, it pretty much failed.
So, it's much like Slashdot, then.
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So, it's much like Slashdot, then.
[citation needed]
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Not quite. Insulting real morons is fun! Insulting artificial morons cannot compare ...
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You're an exception. There have now been several attempts to see what openAI is used for, and it seems to overwhelming function as a "ask internet" replacement.
This is why Google has been trying to put "we think your query is actually a question, and here's our AI answering it" on top of a lot of searches. They're desperately trying to claw back customers they already lost to chatGPT.
A lot of processors I'm sure but... (Score:1)
I wonder how ChatGPT maps would work (Score:2)
I wonder how ChatGPT would work against a mapping request task.
Would it hallucinate and make up directions to get you to your destination?
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Why do you think there would be such a thing as a mapping version of chatGPT? What problem would it solve that isn't already solved through algorithmic mapping?
Viral (Score:2)
What exactly makes a chatbot viral? Do I get the flu from it? Is it learning at a geometric rate?
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It lowers the user's IQ when they don't verify the bot's results.
Being surrounded by lower IQ people lowers one's own IQ as well.
And then you're more inclined to join in the hype.
Thus, viral.
Can't wait for a version of Idiocracy about AI.
a success in the making (Score:2)
It can't be worse than Google search has become. So let's just see how absolutely fucking laughably awful this is.
Never found a NEED for ChatGPT (Score:2)
Google execs were warning their people about this (Score:1)
Remember the "all hands on deck" moment at google that so many headlines were generated about? It was for this moment. When openAI finally releases their "search" based on recent data.
Because fundamentally, when someone goes to google to search, they're often not actually searching for the search parameters, but for an answer to a specific question. And search parameters are what such people input into the search field because they believe that this will produce results that will include an answer to their