DuckDuckGo just launched an AI search engine using ChatGPT

DuckDuckGo launched a beta version of its ChatGPT-powered AI search tool on Wednesday called DuckAssist. In addition to the company’s privacy-focused search engine Uses ChatGPT’s language parsing capability to generate truncated answers From Wikipedia and related sources such as Encyclopedia Britannica. The tool is free and available on DuckDuckGo Web browsing applications for phones And Computers In addition to the company’s browser extension starting today.

Gabriel Weinberg, CEO of DuckDuckGo, said: blog post. “We designed DuckAssist to be fully integrated into DuckDuckGo’s own search, mirroring the look and feel of our traditional search results, so while AI-generated content is new, we hope using DuckAssist will feel second nature.”

unlike Microsoft’s failed AI projects with Bing (to cut Sydney)DuckAssist is not a chatbot. Instead, DuckAssist will automatically suggest an answer when it recognizes a search term that it can answer. It is not imposed on anyone. When an AI-powered response is available, you’ll see a magic wand icon with an “Ask Me” button in the search results. The company says DuckAssist is still in beta, So it may not pop Even then often.

For this initial experiment, DuckAssist is more likely to appear in search results when users search for questions that have answers directly in Wikipedia. Think of questions like “What is a search engine index? Instead of subjective questions like “What is the best search engine?”

The company says that limiting the data source to Wikipedia will help stave off some of the strange erratic behavior users have seen in other AI tools. For example, it was on Microsoft Limit new Bing chat features, which is also powered by ChatGPT, just over a week after its release. After reports emerged that Bing had given up its secret internal codename, Use of racial slursHe made a long list of generally unhinged responses, Microsoft has examined Bing AI And He got his jobs back.

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Privacy is the focus DuckDuckGo products and The company says DuckAssist will not collect personal information, nor do that It requires a login, just like the company’s other tools. DuckDuckGo says it keeps users’ search and browsing history anonymous on all data shared with OpenAI, makers of ChatGPT and Anthropic, the company’s partners in this project.

DuckDuckGo says DuckAssist is just one of many AI-Business enabled tools. If the beta testing goes well, the company plans to roll out the tool to everyone using the search tool on the DuckDuckGo website as well.

There will be an anonymous feedback link next to all of the AI-generated answers that you can use to share ideas with DuckDuckGo.