Why You Don't Want AI Chatbot Search in Your Browser - Lifewire

• Microsoft and Google have both announced AI chatbots for search.
• These chatbots provide answers so you don’t have to trawl through a list of links.
• But they also mean you don’t need to visit the sites that created the answers.

This week, both Google and Microsoft both announced artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot additions to their search engines, which is good for them, but is it so great for us?

OpenAI's ChatGPT has given us a taste of what AI can cook up when fed on the internet. The ideal AI assistant would be like the disembodied computer voices in sci-fi TV shows, understanding our questions and answering them accurately in a succinct, human conversational style. The problem is Google and Microsoft's ideal AI scenarios, chatbot search, differs from ours, the users.

"Another key feature of AI assistants is that they can assimilate multiple sources of information into a single, highly targeted, and immediately usable result. Rather than read content from several sources and work out the story yourself, use an AI assistant to assemble the whole story for you," data scientist and AI expert Bob Rogers told Lifewire via email.

AI Chatbot Search Wars

Speaking to The Verge’s Nilay Patel, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said that AI is not a search engine but an answer engine. The company has incorporated an AI chatbot into its Bing search tool, so you can ask it questions, just like Clippy, only you’ll get useful answers. Microsoft is working closely with OpenAI, the...

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