You.com, a search engine launched last year promising more customization, began offering a ChatGPTstyle chatbot on its Friday website that can answer questions and hold a conversation, bringing more artificial intelligence-based technology to the wider web. Although it offers answers with incorrect facts.

The new search engine feature follows ChatGPT, a An AI chatbot that went viral earlier this year to be able to offer unique answers to complex questions, based on information gathered from the Internet. You.com said it hoped to stand out, however, by offering answers to more current questions, like, “Who won the 2022 World Cup?“ChatGPT only has information up to last year.

People using You.com should be careful though, as its confident answer to the World Cup question seems to get the details wrong, like where the final was, when it happened, and who played. scored the winning shot. When CNET posed the question to the chatbot again, it omitted those details.

A note on the site reads, “This product is in beta and its accuracy may be limited” and adds that “You.com is not responsible for generated content.”

ChatGPT has also been criticized for its trustworthiness post incorrect answers. You.com’s chat program is also limited in other respects and apparently unable to provide useful responses to requests such as “Write me an HTML solitaire program for the web”.

Both chat programs do things like offer results from the web and repeat encyclopedia-like entries on various topics. They can also write a letter in response to a prompt such as “Write me a letter to an old friend I don’t really like but keep in touch with out of obligation.”

ChatGPT, You.com and other similar chatbots are part of a wider shift in the world of technology, where artificial intelligence programs are increasingly being coded to create new forms of art, the music, writing and even their own code. Their popularity and seemingly rapid evolution have begun to raise questions about what is artand if computers can really create unique products from a information reservoir.

The sudden popularity of ChatGPT in particular has would have sounded the alarm at Google, which has built its corporate image around the work of AI as self-driving cars, real-time translation apps and intelligent assistants. The search giant has its own ChatGPT-like technology called TheMDAwhich he declined to post publicly due to the possibilities he might offer embarrassing answers or start repeating hate speech. Other chatbots, from Microsoft, Facebook and more, have struggled with these issues.

For now, ChatGPT and You.com exist primarily as interesting demonstrations of what the future of AI might look like. And You.com co-founder Richard Socher said in a statement that he thinks integrating chat functionality into You.com will help him stand out from Google. “People are looking for something new,” he said.

For example, when asked to write a haiku about Jamaican beef patties, You.com produced this new result:

Flaky crust, so golden

Beef seasoned inside, so tasty

A Jamaican treat

Another thing that separates the two chatbots at the moment is that You.com will display results from the website alongside its responses, which ChatGPT is not currently designed to do.