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OpenAI Debuts SearchGPT AI Search Engine

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OpenAI today introduced SearchGPT, a prototype of AI search features that are designed to provide "fast and timely answers" combined with "clear and relevant sources."

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SearchGPT is available to a small group of users and publishers at the current time, with OpenAI seeking feedback on the product. The prototype is temporary at the current time, but "best" of the features will be integrated into ChatGPT in the future.

OpenAI designed SearchGPT to pair conversational capabilities with real-time information with the web, which the company says can make it faster and easier to find what you're looking for. SearchGPT is able to respond to questions with up-to-date information from the web. SearchGPT is able to answer follow-up questions in a conversational manner, with shared context included with each additional query.


OpenAI says that it is committed to a "thriving ecosystem of publishers and creators" and that it wants to help users discover publisher sites. Responses that SearchGPT provides have in-line, named attribution and links so users are aware where information is coming from, plus there's a sidebar with additional source links.

Publishers are able to manage how they appear in SearchGPT, but OpenAI says that SearchGPT is "about search" and separate from training generative AI models. Sites can be surfaced in search results even if they've opted out of generative AI training.

Those interested in testing out SearchGPT can join OpenAI's waitlist.

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That's cool but Google will do the same thing.

A local language model driven assistant that can pull results from whichever search engine you want is the best. Anonymously.
 
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Considering it’s still worth less than $100 billion, I’m genuinely surprised Apple hasn’t made an offer to buy this company yet.
 
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This kind of thing is really interesting in that the fundamental business models of how the Internet works are going to need to change.

Right now, most informational or content generating websites survive based on advertising revenue.

These kinds of advanced search engines scrape content from the websites and present the information directly within the UI. That means that while the sources are often included the user rarely clicks on them, and therefore they rarely see the advertisements which keep the lights on at that website.

In the long term, this means that there will be fewer websites who are able to survive because there are fewer eyeballs on the advertisements within their websites.

Does this mean that search engines will pay those websites directly for access to their content?

Will websites unify into a larger body, which can then sell collective access to these search engines?

Will we all fight to the death in the Colosseum for the entertainment of our glorious, artificially intelligent overlords?

I obviously don’t know the answer to any of these questions. All I know is that I love robots and I respect artificial intelligence greatly, and would very much appreciate being one of the survivors of their glorious uprising.

In all seriousness, I just find this stuff fascinating.
 
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tweaknmod said:
This kind of thing is really interesting in that the fundamental business models of how the Internet works are going to need to change.

Right now, most informational or content generating websites survive based on advertising revenue.

These kinds of advanced search engines scrape content from the websites and present the information directly within the UI. That means that while the sources are often included the user rarely clicks on them, and therefore rarely the advertisements keep the lights on at that website.
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Three letters.

RSS.

Data brokers and spam ad firms did everything they could to kill your RSS feeds.

If we can destroy their business that's fine by me.

The GPT search engine won't give you the full article anyway. There will be a 'Read more' button to send you to the sites.
 
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Ngl. This actually looks pretty good. I would have to use it to see if it's actually better than Google/Bing. I'll keep my eye on it. But I would also have to see what the privacy protections are for this search. Since it seems to be input into an app, it seems like a useful way for OpenAI to, oh idk...suck up a lot of data? Not much different than Google
 
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stinksroundhere said:
Three letters.

RSS.

Data brokers and spam ad firms did everything they could to kill your RSS feeds.

If we can destroy their business that's fine by me.

The GPT search engine won't give you the full article anyway. There will be a 'Read more' button to send you to the sites.
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Fair enough, and good points, but I don’t believe the majority of people will click the read more button.

While it may not destroy the advertising based revenue stream, I do think it’s going to at the very least force a shift in business models.
 
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OpenAI today introduced SearchGPT, a prototype of AI search features that are designed to provide "fast and timely answers" combined with "clear and relevant sources."

open-ai-logo.jpg

SearchGPT is available to a small group of users and publishers at the current time, with OpenAI seeking feedback on the product. The prototype is temporary at the current time, but "best" of the features will be integrated into ChatGPT in the future.

OpenAI designed SearchGPT to pair conversational capabilities with real-time information with the web, which the company says can make it faster and easier to find what you're looking for. SearchGPT is able to respond to questions with up-to-date information from the web. SearchGPT is able to answer follow-up questions in a conversational manner, with shared context included with each additional query.


OpenAI says that it is committed to a "thriving ecosystem of publishers and creators" and that it wants to help users discover publisher sites. Responses that SearchGPT provides have in-line, named attribution and links so users are aware where information is coming from, plus there's a sidebar with additional source links.

Publishers are able to manage how they appear in SearchGPT, but OpenAI says that SearchGPT is "about search" and separate from training generative AI models. Sites can be surfaced in search results even if they've opted out of generative AI training.

Those interested in testing out SearchGPT can join OpenAI's waitlist.

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Puts on GOOG
 
Perplexity AI has been ahead of the curve with this for some time already.
All boils down to your use and prefs
 
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masotime said:
What makes you think they're not profitable?
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By profitable we normally mean a company that has more cash than debt and can pay back their investors.

OpenAI's annual revenue is far far far lower than the amount of money they owe to investors. It will take a long time for them to give investor's profit on their investment or they will have to list on the stock exchange, which is controversial at the moment because they were set up to be a non-profit.
 
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tweaknmod said:
Fair enough, and good points, but I don’t believe the majority of people will click the read more button.
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Apple's News and Stocks app do the same thing minus using a language model. Parsing website's isn't new. If they didn't like it they can always block their sites from being parsed. Some sites have an agreement with Apple that users can only read their articles if they buy a News subscription.
 
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What makes you think they're not profitable?
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www.theinformation.com

Why OpenAI Could Lose $5 Billion This Year

OpenAI has built one of the fastest-growing businesses in history. It may also be one of the costliest to run. The ChatGPT maker could lose as much as $5 billion this year, according to an analysis by The Information, based on previously undisclosed internal financial data and people involved in ...
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Expenses of $8.5B vs. only $2.5B of projected revenue this year.
 
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