Google released Search Generative Experience, or SGE, on Thursday. SGE is an experimental form of Search that includes answers from artificial intelligence right in the results.
Instead of giving you a list of blue links like a normal Google Search does, SGE uses AI to answer your questions right on the Google Search page. When you type a question into Google Search, a green or blue box will pop up with a unique answer produced by Google’s large language model, which is similar to the one that powers OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
Google pulls this information from websites and links to sources when making an answer. You can also ask follow-up questions in SGE to get more accurate answers.
Right now, SGE is only available to people who have signed up for Google’s Search Labs. Click this link to join. Search Labs is currently only open in the US and only in English to a small number of people, but you can sign up for the waitlist. Google didn’t answer right away when asked for a response.
With the release of ChatGPT at the end of last year, an AI robot that could answer almost any question with a unique answer, companies have been adding generative AI features to their products in response to the increased public interest. Google showed off Bard, an AI robot that is similar to ChatGPT, earlier this year.
Microsoft then added ChatGPT straight to Bing, along with an AI image generator powered by OpenAI’s Dall-E. The technology that makes AI chatbots work is called a large language model, or LLM. It uses a huge amount of text data to write words that sound like human language. The model’s main goal is to figure out what the next best word should be when creating sentences, a process that has been called “autocomplete on steroids.”
AI was also a big topic at Google I/O, the search giant’s yearly developers conference, earlier this month. During the two-hour presentation, the term “AI” was used more than 140 times. Cathy Edwards, Google’s vice president of engineering, said at I/O that with a normal Google Search, people have to break up complicated questions into multiple questions, look through websites for information, and figure out the answer in their heads. All of this can be done for you by SGE’s AI.
How to get on the waitlist for Google Search Labs
Here’s how to get on the Search Labs line so you can be one of the first to try out Google’s SGE:
On a computer, open the Chrome web application.
Sign in to your account on Google.
Start a new window in your browser.
If you can use Labs, there will be a beaker-shaped icon in the top right corner.
Click the Labs button and then click Join Waitlist if it is there.
You’ll get an email when Labs become available.
SGE is part of Search Labs and has experimental features like Code Tips, which gives coding ideas right in Search, and Add to Sheets, which can automatically put information found in Search into Google Sheets.
If you can get into SGE now, Google needs you to agree to its privacy notice and asks you not to include private or confidential personal information that “can be used to identify you or others in your interactions with SGE features.” During this test, some data will be looked at by humans, but it won’t be linked to your Google account. The My Activity page lets you delete contacts.
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Google also says that generative AI is a bad idea and that its accuracy may range. This probably has to do with “hallucinations,” a problem with generative AI where it can definitely say something is true when it isn’t. Google says that you shouldn’t depend on generative AI for medical, legal, financial, or other professional services.
Editors’ note: CNET is using an AI engine to create some personal finance explainers that are edited and fact-checked by our editors. See this post for more details. You can get to SGE using the Chome PC web browser or the Google apps for Android and iOS. a big language model
