DuckDuckGo search engine has a free AI assistant
Miscellaneous / / April 03, 2023
However, sometimes he can be wrong.
A DuckAssist virtual assistant has been built into the DuckDuckGo search engine, which provides a summary of Wikipedia articles in response to user questions, writes Ars Technica.
The DuckAssist beta is already available through the DuckDuckGo mobile apps and browser extensions. For now, this is a free feature.
How it works: If a DuckDuckGo user has a question that can be answered on Wikipedia, DuckAssist provides a short report with links to sources. The summary appears above the regular search results in a special field.
DuckAssist responds to questions by scanning a specific set of sources - at the moment this is usually "Wikipedia", and sometimes related sites such as Britannica. Because we use OpenAI and Anthropic technologies to summarize what we find on Wikipedia, the bot gives a specific answer to the question, unlike traditional search results.
Gabriel Weinberg
CEO of DuckDuckGo
The developers admit that at this stage the assistant is still far from perfect and may make mistakes in the selection of data.
“But if you ask DuckAssist to only summarize information from Wikipedia and related sources, then the chance of error is greatly reduced,” Weinberg said.
The search history in DuckAssist remains anonymous, as in DuckDuckGo, the company noted.
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