OpenAI’s rumored ChatGPT search engine is reportedly launching on Monday. Oh, and it happens the day before Google’s flagship developer conference.
Initially thought to launch on May 9 or sometime this week, the Google Search rival is now expected on May 13. Google I/OAccording to Reuters.
How can ChatGPT be a search engine?
A ChatGPT search engine might look similar to Google’s current experience called SGE (Search Generative Experience) which provides chatbot answers at the top of the search page, followed by a traditional list of links. Is. SGE is still in a testing arena, though it’s quietly tapping into some of the non-testers’ search queries.
The original ChatGPT is already considered a search engine alternative. Its current knowledge cutoff date is May 2023, making it a useful resource for gathering general information in conversational interfaces. For a short time, ChatGPT was connected to the Internet through integration with Microsoft Bing, but it disabled Because the chatbot was able to get past content with a paywall.
In addition, the ongoing struggle between publishers and OpenAI over the removal of their stories without credit or compensation has made ChatGPT’s position as an aggregator of newsworthy information moot. Currently, OpenAI is dealing with lawsuits. The New York Times and other news outlets for plagiarism and copyright infringement, while signing a licensing deal with Axel Springer, Financial Timesand Dotdash Meredith to use their content to train their AI models and surface information from their sites.
Other sites have blocked OpenAI from crawling their pages for content to feed the company’s AI models.
How the ongoing licensing disputes will affect the ChatGPT search engine — whose ostensible purpose is to surface real-time information — remains unclear. what Is Clearly, OpenAI is taking a direct shot at Google. If you’ve been living under a rock with no internet access, Google completely dominates the search engine market. ChatGPT will be a direct attempt to compete with the search engine Google Search.
Microsoft Bing’s AI-powered search engine (now rebranded as Copilot) Didn’t really make a dent Google dominates the search market. But that hasn’t stopped others from trying to take Google’s crown. Perplexity AI is a search engine founded by former OpenAI and Google employees that uses a combination of LLMs, and currently Valued at $1 billion. So OpenAI’s search engine will compete against the old guards and new startups
And the first step is pushing Google to its party.
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