DuckDuckGo has announced a new artificial intelligence-powered tool that automatically pulls and summarises information from Wikipedia to answer certain search queries.<\/p>\n
Dubbed DuckAssist, the new tool makes DuckDuckGo the latest search engine to start offering artificial intelligence capabilities.<\/p>\n
“If you enter a question that can be answered by Wikipedia into our search box, DuckAssist may appear and use AI natural language technology to anonymously generate a brief, sourced summary of what it finds in Wikipedia \u2014 right above our regular private search results,” it said in a blog post<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n DuckAssist is already live on the search engine and free to access. However, it is currently only available through DuckDuckGo’s mobile apps and browser extensions.<\/p>\n The company’s founder and CEO, Gabriel Weinberg, says DuckDuckGo will incorporate it into its web-based search engine if the trial is successful.<\/p>\n Users who enter a question that DuckAssist can answer will see a box that says, “I can check to see if Wikipedia has relevant information on this topic, just ask”.<\/p>\n They can then hit the “Ask” button to get an AI-generated answer from Wikipedia.<\/p>\n If DuckAssist has already answered a question before, users aren’t required to hit the “Ask” button. Instead, it will automatically respond.<\/p>\n Although the AI tool leverages language models from OpenAI and Anthropic, Weinberg emphasised that it will have the same focus on privacy as DuckDuckGo.<\/p>\n “As with all other third parties we work with, we do not share any personally identifiable information like your IP address.”<\/p>\n “Additionally, our anonymous queries will not be used to train their AI models.”<\/p>\n DuckAssist is already live on the search engine and free to access. However, it is currently only available through DuckDuckGo’s mobile apps and browser extensions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341076,"featured_media":458091,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[84095,11941,85123,26900,85651,45266],"class_list":["post-488179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-anthropic","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-duckassist","tag-duckduckgo","tag-gabriel-weinberg","tag-openai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488179"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341076"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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