OpenAI has revealed SearchGPT, a prototype search tool that uses real-time web data to provide speedy and accurate results to user requests.
Its goal is to provide users with “quick and efficient answers from reliable sources.”
This new feature offers to improve AI-powered search, putting OpenAI on a collision course with Google and Bing, as well as budding competitors like Perplexity.
According to OpenAI, the new tool will help users locate what they are looking for more quickly and easily by utilising generative AI to gather connections and respond to user queries in a conversational tone.
SearchGPT could potentially be connected with OpenAI’s popular ChatGPT chatbot. In addition to a larger web search, the search engine will use information provided by publishers who have signed agreements granting OpenAI access to their data.
One example from OpenAI shows how the search engine summarises its discoveries on music festivals and then provides a brief synopsis of each event along with a link to the source.
Newsng understands that in terms of the user interface, SearchGPT is similar to OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot platform.
After entering a search query, SearchGPT displays images and text from the internet along with connections to similar sources.
From there, you can ask more questions or look through other, related searches in a sidebar.
According to the company, the technology will eventually be incorporated into ChatGPT, its popular chatbot.
It is now undergoing alpha testing with a limited number of users.
“We think there is room to make search much better than it is today,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman wrote Thursday in a post on X.
Alphabet shares were trading about 2.5% lower on Thursday, while the Nasdaq was up slightly.
We earlier reported that OpenAI is developing a new AI model known as “Strawberry” to assist its artificial intelligence tools achieve human-level intelligence through enhanced reasoning.
