Google is testing generative AI capabilities in its search engine through the addition of "AI snapshots" of key information at the top of search results.
The experimental snapshots are responses to queries that draw from across the open web.:
- Google is experimenting with generative AI in Search to answer questions, generate summaries, and offer follow-up questions and links to relevant web content.
- Unveiled during I/O conference today, the new;AI search capabilities;are generated by Google's large language models, including PaLM 2 and MUM, and sourced from the open web.
- The AI Search is starting out as an experiment within;Google's new Search Labs, where users can test it and offer feedback.
- To try out the AI snapshots, users have to opt in to a new feature called Search Generative Experience (SGE) as part of the Search Labs feature.
- Search Labs is now open for signups and available on Chrome desktop and the Google App (Android and iOS) in the U.S.
- The AI snapshots will launch to Labs users in the "coming weeks."
AI Snapshots:
