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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 12 2023, @09:29PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 12 2023, @09:29PM (#1295817)

    I would state the top reasons are:
    -Hiring less capable, less experienced, poor fit candidates for the position just to check the box labeled Diversity and Inclusion?
    -Hiring art degree majors with no CS experience and no concept of good UX to design the UI
    -No criticism of bad ideas is allowed in fear of cancel culture, aka bullying-witchhunt-opression-mobocracy. When someone comes up with a ridiculous idea, no one can say anymore "This is a dumb idea" anymore out of fear of causing a torrent of "I am literally shaking right now" tears to rain down. Basically bad ideas cannot be questioned anymore, especially when they come from the D&I people.
    -All good ideas and designs from the past are being thrown out because of "Ewww... some greedy boomer designed that in 2006, we have to throw that out."

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 12 2023, @10:18PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 12 2023, @10:18PM (#1295821)

    BZZZZT.

    So these companies that fire 10,000 employees at a time are squeamish about hurting Millenial's feelz and get stepped all over? Poor companies, I feelz sad now :(