OpenAI just launched its AI search update for ChatGPT. Three months after the company’s initial announcement of a SearchGPT prototype, OpenAI’s vision for the future of AI search is now available to the public.
"We're focused on making ChatGPT the best place to answer any question, including live information from the web," said Adam Fry, the product lead for search on ChatGPT.
Referred to by Fry as "ChatGPT search" rather than "SearchGPT," the feature enters an increasingly crowded and contentious field of AI search options for users—with competition from smaller startups, like Perplexity, as well as tech giants, like Google with its AI Overview search results. So far in 2024, journalists have criticized both Google and Perplexity’s implementations of AI search for improperly copying aspects of original work and hallucinating fake information.
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