Google plans to upgrade search with AI chat, video clips: report

Google is planning to make its search engine extra “visual, snackable, personal, and human,” with a give attention to serving younger folks globally, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday, citing paperwork.

The transfer comes as synthetic intelligence (AI) purposes corresponding to ChatGPT are quickly gaining in reputation, highlighting a know-how that would upend the way in which companies and society function.

The tech big will nudge its service additional away from “10 blue links,” which is a conventional format of presenting search outcomes and plans to include extra human voices as a part of the shift, the report mentioned.

At its annual I/O developer convention within the coming week, Google is predicted to debut new options that permit customers to hold out conversations with an AI program, a undertaking code-named “Magi,” WSJ added, citing folks conversant in the matter.

Generative AI has develop into a buzzword this yr, with purposes capturing the general public’s fancy and sparking a rush amongst corporations to launch comparable merchandise they imagine will change the character of labor.

Google, a part of Alphabet Inc., didn’t instantly reply to Reuters’ request for remark.

(Reporting by Shivani Tanna in Bengaluru; Editing by Kim Coghill)

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