{"id":138197,"date":"2022-04-16T03:03:59","date_gmt":"2022-04-16T08:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/chatbots-could-one-day-replace-search-engines-heres-why-thats-a-terrible-idea"},"modified":"2022-04-16T03:03:59","modified_gmt":"2022-04-16T08:03:59","slug":"chatbots-could-one-day-replace-search-engines-heres-why-thats-a-terrible-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/chatbots-could-one-day-replace-search-engines-heres-why-thats-a-terrible-idea","title":{"rendered":"Chatbots could one day replace search engines. Here\u2019s why that\u2019s a terrible idea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chatbots-could-one-day-replace-search-engines-heres-why-thats-a-terrible-idea.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was cute\u2060\u2014even though LaMDA went on to make a few errors. The AI language model that powers it is still in development, Pichai explained. And Google says it has no plans yet to use LaMDA in its products. Even so, the company is using it to explore new ways to interact with computers\u2014and new ways to search for information. \u201cLaMDA already understands quite a lot about Pluto and millions of other topics,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The vision of a know-it-all AI that dishes out relevant and accurate information in easy-to-understand bite-size chunks is shaping the way tech companies are approaching <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/2021\/05\/14\/1024918\/language-models-gpt3-search-engine-google\/\">the future of search<\/a>. And with the rise of voice assistants like Siri and Alexa, language models are becoming a go-to technology for finding stuff out in general.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was cute\u2060\u2014even though LaMDA went on to make a few errors. The AI language model that powers it is still in development, Pichai explained. And Google says it has no plans yet to use LaMDA in its products. Even so, the company is using it to explore new ways to interact with computers\u2014and new [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}