Anicet Mbida 06:52, February 09, 2023

Anicet Mbida delivers to us every morning what is best in terms of innovation.

This Thursday, he is interested in search engines which are now relying on artificial intelligence.

The innovation of the day is the search engines that are boosted with artificial intelligence.

There will be changes at Google, Bing and others...

On Tuesday, Microsoft announced that Bing, its search engine, was going to integrate ChatGPT.

Yesterday, Wednesday, it was Google's turn to lift the veil on its competitor ChatGPT.

Same thing at Baidu, the Chinese Google, will also integrate a kind of ChatGPT into its search engine.

For what ?

Because when you do a search on the internet, "quiche Lorraine recipe" for example, rather than giving you a list of links to sites that talk about the recipe, you will be given the list of ingredients directly, preparation and cooking time.

All perfectly written and explained.

Another example: rather than reading pages and pages of Wikipedia, we can ask him “explain the big bang to me in a few simple words” or “summarize a book or such an event for me.

We must therefore expect a revolution in the way of searching for information on the internet… For better or for worse.

For what ?

Sounds like good news, doesn't it?

For the simplest searches, yes, that's good news.

It will be faster and more efficient.

What worries me are research on complex or controversial subjects.

Because when there is no absolute truth, it is much more interesting to have a variety of opinions and therefore to have a list of links to different ways of dealing with the subject.

Finally, there is the question of the source of the information that is reported.

A few years ago, newspapers were at war with Google News, which summarized their stories rather than linking to their sites.

And tomorrow, when the engines will directly display a response, what means will we have to know where the information comes from?

These are questions that we are beginning to ask ourselves about Tom Thumb ChatGPT.

But which will take on a whole new dimension with giants like Google and Microsoft.

This is why Thierry Breton, the European Commissioner, is now calling for “a regulation of these tools, so that they guarantee both the quality and the confidence in the information provided.

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