You.com Launches ChatGPT-Style Chatbot

You.com, a search engine that debuted last year with the promise of greater customizability, started providing a ChatGPT-style chatbot on its website on Friday. This introduces additional artificial intelligence-powered technologies to the larger web. However, it does provide certain solutions based on false information.

The new search engine function is modelled after ChatGPT, an AI chatbot that gained popularity earlier this year for being able to provide original answers to challenging questions using data it gathers from throughout the internet. However, You.com claimed that by responding to more up-to-date queries like "Who won the 2022 World Cup," it wants to stand apart. Information about ChatGPT is only current as of last year.

Users of You.com should exercise caution, though, as its confident response to the World Cup question seemed to get certain information inaccurate, including the location of the final, the day it took place, and the player who made the winning shot. The chatbot left out key data when CNET reposed the same query to it.

You.com is not responsible for the content generated, according to a disclaimer on the website that reads, "This product is in beta and its accuracy may be limited."

Additionally, ChatGPT has come under fire for blatantly publishing inaccurate responses. The chat feature on You.com is also restricted in other ways, and it doesn't seem to be able to respond to requests like "Write me a solitaire game in HTML for the web."

Both chat applications do tasks, including offering web search results and repeating entries from encyclopaedias on diverse topics. They can also respond to a suggestion such as, "Write me a letter to an old buddy that I don't really like but keep in touch with out of duty" in their letter writing.

ChatGPT, You.com, and other bots of similar nature are a part of a larger technological change in which artificial intelligence algorithms are increasingly being programmed to produce new genres of writing, music, and even art. Their popularity and seeming rapid progress have caused some to wonder what exactly constitutes art and whether or not computers are truly capable of producing original works from a pool of knowledge.

According to reports, Google, which has centred its corporate image around AI initiatives like self-driving vehicles, real-time translation apps, and smart assistants, is alarmed by the unexpected popularity of ChatGPT in particular. The search engine giant has its own ChatGPT-like technology dubbed LaMDA but has refrained from making it public for fear that it would provide embarrassing responses or begin repeating hate speech. These problems have plagued other chatbots from Microsoft, Facebook, and other companies.

For time being, ChatGPT and You.com primarily serve as fascinating examples of what the future of AI might entail. Additionally, You.com co-founder Richard Socher stated in a statement that he thinks adding chat functionality will set You.com apart from Google.