Google Launches Dedicated AI Mode in Search

[MacRumors]

Google today announced that it is adding a dedicated AI Mode to Google Search, which is an expansion of the existing AI Overviews feature that Google provides for standard searches. AI Mode is able to handle longer, harder search queries with multiple facets.

Questions are broken down into different parts, with multiple searches run simultaneously on separate databases to provide a timely answer that takes into account personal context to make results more relevant to each user. It can generate images, including custom charts, and it supports follow-up questions.

AI Mode is rolling out to all users in the United States starting today, and it will be accessible through a new tab in Google Search for desktop and the Google Search apps. It will let users make more complex queries that are designed to leverage AI capabilities.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai said that AI Mode's predecessor, AI Overviews, has been "one of the most successful launches for search in the last decade." Pichai did not address the impact that AI Overviews have had on publishers. AI Overviews and AI Mode pull content from websites, giving people little reason to click on links to source information directly where it came from. AI Mode will display links, much like AI Overviews, but with detailed summaries that are provided, there's little reason for people to visit websites from the search interface.

AI Mode will incorporate AI agent capabilities, so it will be able to field requests like "find two affordable tickets for this Saturday's Reds game," and it will also work for shopping. AI Mode will be able to help users find specific items, such as a rug, with refinements that take into account factors like children or pets, colors, and more. Google's AI Mode will be able to track prices on items, and let you know when something you want is on sale.

For clothing shopping, AI Mode includes a virtual try-on option. It can use a photo of the user to create a preview of what an item of clothing will look like when worn. The feature works by generating an AI model of the user's body, and displaying how clothing will drape in a realistic way. There's also a "buy it for me" option that can be used for making purchases directly from search. The new shopping features are set to arrive in the coming months, though try on is available in Labs now.

This summer, AI Mode will adopt personal context, aggregating past searches and information from apps like Gmail to provide more customized responses.

AI Mode will now power AI Overviews in the standard search interface, and some of the new AI Mode capabilities will be incorporated into AI Overviews.

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[deaglecat]

As this point... I would pay to have an AI free existence. Its just awful and rammed in everywhere.

 

[LoveToMacRumors]

Incredible how gemini and chatgpt have improvements every few weeks, thats what you need.

When apple intelligence finally releases, is it gonna have weekly updates to make sure it stays up to speed with the competition? Highly doubt

 

[FoxyKaye]

Would love it if they also gave us a "Dedicated Non-AI Search Results" option. The AI summaries are so diluted they're more inaccurate signage than real solutions unless you're looking for a single data point, e.g. "Maximum decibels pickleball."

 

[aloysiusfreeman]

Incredible how gemini and chatgpt have improvements every few weeks, thats what you need.

Not a update once every few years . . . Like apple maps, safari, etc

They have updates every few weeks because it started off as crap and it is now polished crap.

 

[Think|Different]

Reminds me of the famous play “Much Ado About Nothing.”

 

[Piggie]

As this point... I would pay to have an AI free existence. Its just awful and rammed in everywhere.

I have bad news for you

I'm actually very interested in how this pans out, as during my whole life, I've never seen so many countries around the world, employing the very brightest humans on the entire planet, throwing as much money as you could possible think of, in the pursuit of one goal (creating AI)

Such a thing has really never happened before, and (love it or not) it's so exciting to be alive when the brightest humans from all around the globe focus on a single? target.

 

[mthomas184]

Incredible how gemini and chatgpt have improvements every few weeks, thats what you need.

When apple intelligence finally releases, is it gonna have weekly updates to make sure it stays up to speed with the competition? Highly doubt

Yearly. Knowing Apple, they won't update the models until the next WWDC every year.

 

[Lounge vibes 05]

The AI results have actively made using Google worse.
Even just doing a couple searches, it’s not long before you come across an answer it gives that’s just blatantly false or only half true or misleading.
A lot of their announcements today were very impressive, this though? No thank you.

 

[Piggie]

I will add a comment, and I hope (wish) it's not true, but sadly I fear, due to the very nature of these forums, it will be partially true.
I have to accept there will be a certain percentage of people who feel negative to a lot of this as it's not coming from Apple.
I would like to think, we could see past this, and not care who it's coming from, but I do fear that if Apple were leading the way, there are some who would have a very different opinion.
(Shame I had to mention that, but it's going to be true to a hopefully small extent)

 

[Jumpthesnark]

Let me know when those needy, approval-seeking AI algorithms stop making things up because they think that's what we want.

Chicago Sun-Times publishes made-up books and fake experts in AI debacle

A summer reading guide included made-up books by real authors.

www.theverge.com

 

[picpicmac]

today announced that it is adding a dedicated AI Mode

AI Mode has been available for a while. I've used it the past month, at times it is useful. It does cut out the page full of advertisements that one gets with the old Google search.

 

[aloysiusfreeman]

Let me know when those needy, approval-seeking AI algorithms stop making things up because they think that's what we want.

Chicago Sun-Times publishes made-up books and fake experts in AI debacle

A summer reading guide included made-up books by real authors.

www.theverge.com

But it's very exciting to see technology today make things worse and devolve human intellect just so they can have a disruptive technology in the aims of screwing the peasants over

 

[diewish2007]

I have bad news for you

I'm actually very interested in how this pans out, as during my whole life, I've never seen so many countries around the world, employing the very brightest humans on the entire planet, throwing as much money as you could possible think of, in the pursuit of one goal (creating AI)

Such a thing has really never happened before, and (love it or not) it's so exciting to be alive when the brightest humans from all around the globe focus on a single? target.

It has happened lots of times: space exploration, nuclear power development, global telecommunications and the internet, renewable energy, medical research, military development.

AI is indeed coming to stay in one way or another, but what you have typed underestimates human capabilities and is a bit ignorant.

Had you used AI to maybe do a little research, you'd have realized this of course.

 

[Aeronauts]

It’s frightening how much personal information Google has about most of us.

If Apple really cared about security and privacy they would stop taking money from Google and build their own search engine with security and privacy hardwired into it.

 

[Avenged110]

Would love it if they also gave us a "Dedicated Non-AI Search Results" option. The AI summaries are so diluted they're more inaccurate signage than real solutions unless you're looking for a single data point, e.g. "Maximum decibels pickleball."

Isn't there (finally) a "web" option in Google Search results that will distill it back to only webpage listings? I would argue there really needs to be a way to set that as the default display mode, but I believe that view is at least an option.

 

[picpicmac]

I have to accept there will be a certain percentage of people who feel negative to a lot of this as it's not coming from Apple.

Well, lots of toxic-fandom here constantly whine about Apple, so do assume just because this is an Apple-theme forum that Apple has to get love.

As for AI Mode, it is better than the previous little "AI" blurbs at the top of regular Google searches. I think people really need to try it and see if it helps when asking those questions on Google instead of doing specific searches.

 

[Piggie]

It has happened lots of times: space exploration, nuclear power development, global telecommunications and the internet, renewable energy, medical research, military development.

AI is indeed coming to stay in one way or another, but what you have typed underestimates human capabilities and is a bit ignorant.

Had you used AI to maybe do a little research, you'd have realized this of course.

I'll politely disagree with you there.
Whilst yes, many were involved, and much money was involved.
In no way does any of those things match what's being thrown at AI right now.
All of those things had very dedicated teams, but AI (I feel) is way way beyond any of those, and will have an impact of humanity more than I'd suggest anything humans have done up till now.
TO the point of replacing humans.

 

[svish]

Should be useful. Expecting AI to become a core part of search in the coming years. Expecting it to improve over time anyway.

 

[Piggie]

It’s frightening how much personal information Google has about most of us.

If Apple really cared about security and privacy they would stop taking money from Google and build their own search engine with security and privacy hardwired into it.

I have camera's in my home, and one that watches me sleep at night.
If someone in China, working for Google really wants to spend 8 hours a day watching me sleep then good luck to them.

I have the camera pointed at me at night, as if I wake up one morning with a really sore ass, I want to review the footage in case an Alien sneaked in and did some "Probing" during the night

 

[MallardDuck]

is there a dedicated 'no ai' mode?

Not snark, a serious question. The AI stuff is wrong at least half the time.

 

[aloysiusfreeman]

Isn't there (finally) a "web" option in Google Search results that will distill it back to only webpage listings? I would argue there really needs to be a way to set that as the default display mode, but I believe that view is at least an option.

Technically, if you add f&*$ing (without the censor, puritans) to any search, it will not give an AI result first.

Pretty nice and cathartic, too

 

[CJM]

is there a dedicated 'no ai' mode?

Not snark, a serious question. The AI stuff is wrong at least half the time.

I wish I could agree with you, but really AI has bypassed search entirely. Standard google search is utterly useless unless you want to look up opening times or a business address.

 

[fastred]

I've actively avoided Google etc for several years now. There are so many better alternatives - free ones like DuckDuckGo, or excellent paid ones like Kagi.

Google search has most definitely jumped the shark.

Jeremy

 

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Yearly. Knowing Apple, they won't update the models until the next WWDC every year.

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