Chatbots are supercharging search: Are we ready?

Our guest on this episode is Will Knight, senior writer about artificial intelligence at Wired magazine. We discuss how ChatGPT is being applied to search and what some of the potential and pitfalls are of this new class of technology known as "generative AI."

Additional reading:

• Now that ChatGPT is plugged in, things could get weird
• Google rolls out its Bard chatbot to battle ChatGPT
• GPT-4 will make ChatGPT smarter but won't fix its flaws
• What chatbot bloopers reveal about the future of AI

Is that a fact? is a production of the News Literacy Project, a nonpartisan education nonprofit building a national movement to create a more news-literate America. Our host is Darragh Worland, our producer is Mike Webb, our editor is Timothy Kramer, and our theme music is by Eryn Busch.