Web search engine SearchGPT is run by ChatGPT
The startup that created ChatGPT and the GPT language model, OpenAI, is preparing to take on Google head-to-head. The business just unveiled SearchGPT, a search engine driven by AI.
OpenAI’s “temporary prototype of new AI search features” is called SearchGPT. Although it’s not always correct, ChatGPT can already pull information from the web, usually mainly for context or to summarise multiple sources at once. When SearchGPT first launched, it looked a lot more like a standard web search engine like Google, Bing, or DuckDuckGo. The web results were shown as a list of links next to summaries that were created by AI.
Asking extremely specific inquiries, like “music festivals in Boone, North Carolina in August,” or creating a list of follow-up questions based on previous searches, is SearchGPT’s primary selling point. Google’s AI Overviews, which advised users to consume glue and rocks, were trimmed back after an attempt to provide a comparable level of capability. Additionally, Microsoft is beginning to roll out more AI enhancements for Bing; while there haven’t been any stories of Bing advising users to consume strange foods, it’s possible.
“Getting answers on the web can take a lot of effort, often requiring multiple attempts to get relevant results,” stated OpenAI in a blog post. We think that by adding real-time online data to our models’ conversational capabilities, you can find what you’re seeking for more quickly and easily.
In an odd move, OpenAI also states that it is “dedicated to a thriving ecosystem of publishers and creators,” considering that it had previously taken millions of dollars in profit by training its artificial intelligence system by scraping the content of innumerable websites without permission or payment. It’s unclear how many websites and publishers will support OpenAI’s attempt at a search engine given that many of them began banning ChatGPT as soon as the company developed an opt-out method.
OpenAI now offers various user agents for AI training, SearchGPT, and user searches in ChatGPT, which can serve as opt-out methods. Some websites, for instance, might permit the search engine yet still blocking AI training. How that turns out in the upcoming months and years we have to wait and watch. Following the discovery that Perplexity, an additional AI search engine, was indexing websites that users had specifically chosen not to be indexed, some publishers and websites have taken action against AI companies by blocking IP addresses and implementing other preventative measures.
Right now, SearchGPT is in private beta. Visit the ChatGPT website to join the waitlist.
