OpenAI launches AI-generated games and search.
OpenAI added a web search tool to ChatGPT
The News: ChatGPT now searches the web to find up-to date answers to user queries. It was previously restricted to only generating answers based on its training data and had limited capabilities for web searches. It is currently available to ChatGPT’s paid users. However, OpenAI plans to make the feature available to everyone later. It plans to integrate search into its voice-based features. No tool is immune to the tendency of AI models to invent or misinterpret things. Read the full story.
–Melissa Heikkila and Mat HonanAI search could break the web
–Benjamin Brooks is a fellow at the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard scrutinizing the regulatory and legislative response to AI. At its best, AI can be used to better understand a user’s intention, enhance quality content and synthesize data from multiple sources. If AI search is our main portal to the internet, it could disrupt a digital economy that’s already fragile. Today, the production and distribution of online content is dependent on a set of fragile incentives that are tied to virtual foot-traffic: ads, subscriptions or donations, sales or brand exposure. AI search may prevent creators from getting the “eyeballs” and visits they need by hiding the web behind a chatbot. Here’s what industry can do to ensure AI search is sustainable.
