New AI features are coming to Google Search. In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, CEO Sundar Pichai said that advances in conversational AI have the potential to boost Google’s search engine.
“Will people be able to ask questions to Google and interact with LLMs in a search context? Absolutely,” Pichai told the paper, referring to large language models that support intelligent chatbots.
Last month, Google hinted at plans to integrate artificial intelligence into its search engine Open access to coolits own AI chatbot that looks like OpenAI’s ChatGPT. For now, Bard is separate from Google Search, and has its own website and waiting list to access.
As the world’s most popular search engine, Google provides information and links in response to billions of queries every day. Bringing AI chat to Google Search would make the technology accessible to many more people, moving it from the realm of a pilot project into the everyday tool used to find information.
Google did not immediately respond to questions about when new AI features will be available in Search.
Google unveiled a cool in February amid a flurry of new generative AI tools and services in the wake of ChatGPT’s rapid rise late last year. ChatGPT captured imaginations with its ability to provide human-like answers to questions, craft oddly specific poems, and even write programs. By January, ChatGPT was estimated to have reached 100 million active users, making it the fastest growing web platform ever.
This has led to a rush of companies to introduce their own AI products, including Microsoft’s new Bing search. The new Bing is quite a development when compared to Google and other traditional search engines. By incorporating artificial intelligence, it can Provides more complex answers and information.
Pichai told the newspaper that Google is testing several new AI-powered search products, including one that would allow people to ask follow-up questions to their original query. Google has also introduced AI features to its workspace tools including Gmail and Docs.
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