OpenAI Says ChatGPT Search Available To All, No Sign-Up

[engine]

OpenAI has said ChatGPT Search is now available to everyone, with no need to sign up.

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[Mark_A]

I had a good play with it back when I had to sign up. Some weeks later I don't see it integrating with my workflow very well, especially as it can't be trusted and has to be fact checked before its output can be trusted enough to be republished.

[Mark_A]

All of a sudden it isn't so impressive when you realise it is just putting words in front of other words that it has scanned as likely bedfellows from scanning all our website contents. Is that intelligence of any kind or just large scale computing at work? It certainly isn't original thought!

[engine]

It's pretty much the same as any AI search, such as Google, Bing, etc. in the way that it's scraped data. The best way to think about the output is how well in understands your query, and how well it constructs the output.
Google has an advantage in that it's been scraping from the web for many, many years. The question there is, has it's output produced the correct answer?

Keep testing, and verify the SERPs.

[tangor]

I still see it as old time "word spinning" with a pretty face.

The only thing intelligent about the result is calling it ARTIFICIAL.

At present you simply can't TRUST the output to be factual, unbiased, or non-hallucinogenic.

[Mark_A]

Hi tangor, I agree about not being able to trust the output.

One use case that I like is that I can write a piece for a web page and then ask ChatGPT to make it more readable. It does seem to make a good job of that, but it isn't exactly a killer application that could justify the investment that is being made into so called AI by so many companies.

Does anyone else have any real world applications they like ChatGPT for?

[Whitey]

Does anyone else have any real world applications they like ChatGPT for?

On the personal interaction front, I find that using ChatGPT is useful with regards to longer queries, versus Google. I dislike Google for this and don't like the format of overviews. But as you say, trusting ChatGPT and correcting it is an issue.

On the public facing AI application front, I see in the industries that we participate in (travel related), nothing ground breaking. There was some big hype back in mid 2024 about "so called" fantastic applications, mostly which even small competitors could achieve (so what's the hype). The hype has fizzled and i suspect that most competitors will bake these features into their websites and workflows without fanfare.

The main areas of focus seem to be around improving workflows with better data discovery, assembly, automating it, and personalization. That's where we will focus until we know more.

That said, this doesn't need to involve ChatGPT, rather alternative development and bespoke AI. So I'm not that thrilled about the impact of ChatGPT for our business.

But with all the investment and hype about AI infrastructure there's clearly an understanding among far smarter and focused people than me of it having ground breaking applications in the future. So i have a lot to understand and learn yet, probably.

btw - the recent demonstrations of ChatGPT agents, didn't impress me that much. Most of the big folks have way better applications that out compete the demo's and they have the financial capacity to also go direct outside of search channels. But who knows what's next.