'You' Search Engine Introduces A 'Conversational AI For Search' That Mimics ChatGPT

Google Search has been on the top of the food chain for long.

There has been multiple attempts to dethrone the search giant, but none managed to succeed. Even tech companies with tons of resources, like Microsoft, struggled to keep up with it. Google is the largest entity on the web and mobile, and nothing can stop it.

But that doesn't mean others cannot have a go and try.

In order to remain relevant in the World Wide Web conquered by Google, niche search engines thrive.

One example, is a search engine called 'You', which was founded by Salesforce's former scientist. The idea of You is that, the search engine not only include sources in generic categories like "web results" and "news," but also from specific sites like StackOverflow, Wikipedia, Twitter, Amazon, LinkedIn, and individual news sites like The New York Times.

Unlike Google that bulks up search results, You allows users to get information from the sources they wish to see.

This time, You is stepping a bit further, and that is by introducing a "conversational" search engine.

Calling it 'youChat', the feature is essentially an advanced AI that allows users to do basic online searches, just like Google, but in a conversational method.

Read: The Search Engine 'You' From Former Salesforce Scientist Wants To Be A Google Competitor

According to youChat in its introduction:

Unlike any other search engines, including Google, youChat is like a chatbot, which gives the search engine the capability to read, write, and summarize information.

With it, users can get information in easy-to-understand sentences, not a list of links. This should help users understand complex concepts. You also wants youChat to help users resolve daily problems, like getting ideas for essay outlines, writing coding or ideas for gifts, and so forth.

You's youChat has similar capabilities like OpenAI's ChatGPT, but in the form of a search engine.

Dubbed as the search and chat of the future, youChat is You's first AI tool to resolve two issues in search engines.

First, is to make online search more intuitive, helpful and faster. The second, is to make LLMs (Large language Models) represent a major advancement in AI that can transform domains through intelligence via learned knowledge abilities.

"Today, youChat goes live. Open, broadly capable, conversational AI for search with knowledge of recent events and citations of sources," wrote the company’s CEO Richard Socher in a tweet introducing the tool.

The CEO also explained the working and features of the conversational search engine, saying that youChat "advances the AI field of large language models by incorporating the you search and app platform."

He added that "youChat knows about recent events and can provide citations for its answers."

In other words, with youChat, the You search engine can provide answer to users' queries by offering it in a human-like conversation.

While youChat is like an AI assistant that can respond to prompts whenever users summoned it, You advises users to not rely on it too much.

" [...] I am constantly learning from huge amounts of information on the internet, which means I sometimes may get some answers wrong. My AI is always improving and I will often share sources for my answers [...]," youChat explains itself.

As pointed out by many users, youChat may hallucinate references, and include links or images that are outdated.

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"While youChat will be more often up-to-date and truthful than other large language models, it still makes mistakes. Hence we're releasing this in beta. We hope that having citations, apps and web links alongside chat will enable users to verify facts easily," the CEO said.

These traits are also found on OpenAI's ChatGPT, which can sometimes create comments that are illogical but sound plausible when read in their context.

Sometimes, answers may differ from one try to the next, and in some other times, terms can be overused.

Regardless, You is jumping into the AI bandwagon using a conversational AI is a huge step up.

It's worth noting that for safety reasons, ChatGPT has been trained to not answer any potentially damaging questions.