AI-powered search company You.com is taking AI search a step further. The company's users can now reportedly create AI assistants built for their specific needs using the same technology from Llama 3, Claude 3 Opus, or GPT-4o.
With "Custom Assistants," users can design an AI assistant that can respond to inquiries for a particular purpose. Because users won't have to prompt the AI with a lengthy preamble of detailed instructions, this should save consumers time.
Users no longer need to prompt an AI assistant with speaker-related parameters to focus on the users' use case, for example, if they train it to be an expert on audio equipment.
Users of Custom Assistants can select from GPT-4o, Llama 3, or Claude 3 Opus. These large language models, or LLMs, underpin Claude from Anthropic, ChatGPT, and Meta AI. Large-scale text data sets are used to train LLMs or AI systems capable of understanding human language intricacies and generating creative responses to queries.
On You.com, users can click More and then Add New to utilize Custom Assistants. Users can then provide a name for the Custom Assistant, specify its behavior, and select the preferred LLM.
AI Overviews of Google
You.com's latest move comes after Google unveiled its AI Overviews feature, which creates AI-generated search results for users and summarizes content from various websites for a more convenient search experience.
This functionality sounds fantastic, but Google's AI integration has encountered minor issues. It sometimes shows erroneous data. For example, Google's AI Overviews suggested drinking two quarts of pee as a rapid way to pass kidney stones.
Google previously said that AI Overviews make people use search more, and many were satisfied with the results they received. However, this does not seem to be the case. Based on reports, there have been many requests in the Google support forum regarding turning off the function.
According to discussions on Google forums, users have reportedly considered the function unnecessary and often misleading. Google released AI Overviews as an optional Search Labs experiment before recently spreading them to American users, irrespective of their desire.
Unfortunately, there is no way to disable it now, and Google has quickly closed support threads for multiple people who have inquired about how to do so.
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OpenAI Search
OpenAI is also developing an AI-powered search engine. According to reports, OpenAI's search tool will complement its well-known ChatGPT and enable the AI chatbot to extract citations and raw Web content.
Using the company's cutting-edge AI models, ChatGPT will produce responses to text cues that mimic human responses. Industry observers have long used ChatGPT as a stand-in for getting internet data, even though it hasn't always been able to provide accurate and up-to-date web data.
