Welcome to the Tech Mem Right Home for Friday, July 26, 2024 I'm Brian McCullough

today. Open AI takes on Google Search directly. Another Hollywood strike with the same underlying causes. We know

absolutely everything about the new Pixel 9 series already, is

WhatsApp finally catching on in the US and of course the weekend long-range

suggestions.

Here's what you missed today in the world of tech.

Interesting strategic move here for obvious reasons. Open AI has

unveiled search gPT. A search tool powered by gPT 4 that can organize links

and summarize its findings available as a prototype

to 10,000 users at launch, quoting the verge.

The search engine starts with a large text box and asks the user what are you looking for.

But rather than returning a plain list of links, search GPT tries to organize and make sense

of them.

In one example from Open AI, the search engine summarizes its findings on music festivals and then

presents short

descriptions of the events followed by an attribution link. In another

example it explains when to plant tomatoes before breaking down different

varieties of the plant.

After the results appear, you can ask follow-up questions

or click the sidebar to open other relevant links.

There's also a feature called Visual Answers,

but Open AI didn't get back to the verge

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