TECH NEWS – DuckDuckGo joins the party in artificial intelligence with its new feature.

When we say search engine, most people mention Google or, in rarer cases, Microsoft’s Bing instead of Alphabet’s technology. However, there is a third, somewhat prominent player. We don’t mean Altavista (the 40-somethings are hissing now), but DuckDuckGora, which, by its admission, is a search engine that doesn’t want to track its users the way its rivals do.

DuckDuckGo has unveiled DuckAssist, which the company says is the first feature among the artificial intelligence-based search and browser updates it will be adding. There is no need to download anything, nor is registration required. You can see it in browsers or extensions at the top of the search engine results (we didn’t get it, but it’s likely in the rollout phase). The company believes that it is an AI-based instant answer to our question. We get a short summary if the answer can be found on Wikipedia, using AI natural language technology. The feature’s answers will also link to sources.

DuckDuckGo plans to add more AI-based features after DuckAssist, which is currently running its trial and will be expanded later. If you ask questions that are not complex or subjective, they will pop up most often by asking simple questions that it can answer with clear, unambiguous answers. Suppose it is about recent events or Wikipedia pages. In that case, chances are that DuckAssist will not be able to retrieve these, but the company promises to update the index frequently and plans to introduce more sources later.

Conveniently, DuckAssist will be undeniably valuable, and there is still a long way to go, but let’s not forget that ChatGPT was not created at the snap of a finger and that it took time to develop (The same can be said of Microsoft’s AIs, where they have produced some rather unusual and interesting things…)

Source: WCCFTech