“The race starts today,” Microsoft boss Satya Nadella declared, as he unveiled a new version of its search engine Bing with ChatGPT’s advanced AI.
This is the biggest threat to Google search dominance for well over two decades, and comes just a day after Google revealed its own AI bot, Bard, with plans to also integrate this into search.
ChatGPT uses “deep learning techniques” to give human-like responses to search requests.
At the moment, it appears to be lagging, somewhat.
ChannelNews asked it some admittedly esoteric questions, such as “What is your plan to defeat Google?” and “How big is the universe?” and, much like any search engine, it simply gathered the pages most likely to give the answer.
In the case of the (again, admittedly odd) question regarding plans to defeat Google, it showed articles explaining how users can purge Google apps and searches from their own digital lives.
It also offers a Wikipedia window to the right-hand size, and allows users to chat to the bot to ask follow up questions.
The data that ChatGPT scraps stops at the end of 2021, meaning that any queries regarding current affairs will be outdated.
All that said, this is day one, and creator OpenAI has indicated there is a long way to go.
Your move, Google.
