ChatGPT’s new search functionality, launched on October 31, has ignited discussions about its potential to disrupt the search engine market long dominated by Google.
With real-time access to web information and the ability to provide conversational answers complete with direct citations, could ChatGPT be the long-awaited “Google killer”?
“I’m not sure if I’d say it will be a Google search killer, but I think large language models and modern AI are going to change search as we know it, and they already have,” Professor Barry Smyth, computer science professor at University College Dublin and technology entrepreneur, told Newsweek.
“Microsoft‘s Bing has already incorporated various AI features, so you can summarize search results, for example. That partnership between OpenAI and Microsoft had influenced search for a number of months now.”
OpenAI touts its search as perhaps going a step further, describing the new search featureas a blend of “the …