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DuckDuckGo's New Wikipedia Summary Bot: “We Fully Expect It to Make Mistakes”

posted by hubie on Sunday March 12 2023, @04:50PM   Printer-friendly
from the keeping-up-with-the-joneses dept.

Freeman writes:

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/03/wikipedia-ai-truth-duckduckgo-hopes-so-with-new-answerbot/

Not to be left out of the rush to integrate generative AI into search, on Wednesday DuckDuckGo announced DuckAssist, an AI-powered factual summary service powered by technology from Anthropic and OpenAI. It is available for free today as a wide beta test for users of DuckDuckGo's browser extensions and browsing apps. Being powered by an AI model, the company admits that DuckAssist might make stuff up but hopes it will happen rarely.

Here's how it works: If a DuckDuckGo user searches a question that can be answered by Wikipedia, DuckAssist may appear and use AI natural language technology to generate a brief summary of what it finds in Wikipedia, with source links listed below. The summary appears above DuckDuckGo's regular search results in a special box.

[...] Update (March 9, 2023): We spoke with a representative of DuckDuckGo and they said they're using OpenAI's GPT-3.5 and Anthropic's Claude as LLMs. "We're experimenting with OpenAI's recently announced Turbo model, too," they said.

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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by BlueCoffee on Sunday March 12 2023, @09:12PM (1 child)

    by BlueCoffee (18257) on Sunday March 12 2023, @09:12PM (#1295815)

    I hear ya! Search engine results have been crap for a long time because the business suits think that returning 1900 general results is better than returning 200 specific results for various reasons:
    -terms are ORed instead of ANDed so more results are returned
    -they silently substitute words to return more results
    -when you use +, -, and quotes there is a high probability those switches will get ignored.

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  • (Score: 2) by cmdrklarg on Tuesday March 14 2023, @10:04PM

    by cmdrklarg (5048) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday March 14 2023, @10:04PM (#1296166)

    You're already at +5 so I can't add more. Amazon does this very thing, making looking for anything specific there an enormous waste of time.

    Plenty of Fish's phone app did this shit too. Search for female, 38-57 years old, non-religious, within 25 miles. "Oh, you needed more results so we changed your search parameters". Assholes.

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