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Google was once confident in its search business until the emergence of ChatGPT and Bing chatbot.

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At Google's annual I/O conference, the company announced the launch of an experimental search engine using AI technology similar to ChatGPT.

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The new search engine will feature text synthesized by AI that pulls from information found on different sources across the web.

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A user can ask follow-up questions to get more specific information on a query.

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The AI-infused search engine is accessible in the US via a new feature called Search Labs.

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The AI-powered search is avoiding controversial topics like politics and medical or financial advice.

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Liz Reid, the vice president of search at Google, gave WIRED a preview of the new features ahead of I/O.

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Google is adding ChatGPT-like features to search in a defensive move to catch up with the competition.

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Google invested heavily in AI over recent years, with CEO Sundar Pichai often calling the company "AI first".

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ChatGPT is a chatbot powered by a machine learning model trained to predict the words likely to follow a string of text.

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ChatGPT is surprisingly clever and garrulous, though also fundamentally flawed.

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Microsoft invested $10 billion in OpenAI in January and then incorporated ChatGPT into Bing a month later.

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Google was left scrambling to catch up with the hype and strong interest from users in ChatGPT and Bing chat.

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Google developed a precursor to ChatGPT called LaMDA and later announced a ChatGPT competitor called Bard.

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Google is infusing text-generation technology into its core product, search.

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Google's dominance and reputation could make this latest move the biggest test yet of ChatGPT-style technology.

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Language models can fabricate, so companies need to develop ways to check that the information served to users is accurate.

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Some online publishers are concerned about search companies scraping and regurgitating their content in ways that mean fewer referrals.

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Google needs to avoid cannibalizing its search advertising business, which provides a significant chunk of the company's revenue.

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The future of search will likely involve AI-powered chatbots and language models, but the technology is still in its early stages, and there are many challenges to overcome.