OpenAI unveils SearchGPT, an AI-powered search engine

On Thursday, OpenAI announced a new AI-powered search engine prototype called SearchGPT. The move marks the company’s entry into the competitive search engine market, which has been dominated by Google for decades. On the OpenAI website described SearchGPT as a “temporary prototype of new AI search features that give you fast and timely responses with clear and relevant sources”. The company plans to test the product with 10,000 initial users and launch it on ChatGPT after gathering feedback.

SearchGPT’s launch comes amid growing competition in AI-powered search. Recently, the world’s dominant search engine, Google began to integrate It incorporates AI capabilities into its platform. Other startups, such as Jeff Bezos-backed Perplexity, have also aimed to take on Google, marketing themselves as “answer engines” that use artificial intelligence to generalize the web.

The rise of artificial intelligence-powered search engines has been controversial. Confusion last month faced criticism to summarize the stories Forbes and Wired without adequate attribution or backlinks to publications, as well as ignoring robots.txt, a way for websites to tell data-crunching crawlers to back off. Earlier this week Wired publisher Condé Nast is reported to have been sent He sent a final and final letter to Confusion, accusing him of plagiarism.

Perhaps because of these tensions, OpenAI is more cooperative with SearchGPT. The company’s blog post highlights that the prototype was developed in collaboration with various news organizations and includes quotes from the company’s CEOs. Atlantic and News Corptwo many publishers OpenAI has signed license agreements.

“SearchGPT is designed to help users connect with publishers by providing key citations in searches and connecting with them,” the company’s blog post says. “Answers have clear, ordered, named attributes and links so users know where the information came from and can quickly engage with more results in a sidebar with source links.” OpenAI also noted that publishers will control how their content is presented on SearchGPT and can opt out of having their content used to train OpenAI models when it appears in search results.

In the SearchGPT interface, users are asked “What are you looking for?” has a prominent text box asking the question. Unlike traditional search engines like Google that provide a list of links, SearchGPT categorizes results with short descriptions and visuals.

For example, when searching for information about music festivals, the engine provides brief descriptions of the events and links to more detailed information. Some users have noted that the search engine already provides inaccurate information in its results.

We repeat again: Please don’t get your news from AI chatbots.