Search engine DuckDuckGo now features its own artificial intelligence-based assistant.
A new feature called DuckAssist(opens in new tab) uses generative AI, developed in partnership with OpenAI, creators of ChatGPT, and AI research firm Anthropic to answer user queries in a more conversational way.
For example, if you ask DuckDuckGo about the color of the dress that went viral in 2015, rather than just providing a list of topics, you get a straight answer and a little more information about how the dress came to be. increase. subject.
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It’s far from having a conversation with an AI chatbot such as ChatGPT, but it could be a quicker and easier way to get exactly the information you need. No need to click multiple links and search.
To create these summaries, DuckAssist uses Wikipedia (and sometimes sites like Britannica), so the results aren’t all that different from Google’s Wikipedia-based summaries shown for a given query. there is no. However, DuckDuckGo says DuckAssist is “the first in a series of generative AI-assisted features” that the company hopes to roll out “in the coming months.”
DuckDuckGo warns that DuckAssist doesn’t show up for every query and sometimes makes mistakes.
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DuckAssist is free and available to everyone, but is not visible on the web. Instead, it is currently limited to the DuckDuckGo browsing app and browser extension. The company says it plans to roll out the trial to everyone if it goes well.
DuckDuckGo is a privacy-oriented search engine that promises anonymity, and DuckAssist is equally anonymous, no login required.
The feature comes a few weeks after Microsoft added an AI chatbot to its search engine, Bing. Google is also working on his AI chatbot called Bard to complement search results.
