OpenAI’s deep research tool

OpenAI, the makers of ChatGPT, have launched a new tool called Deep Research. It’s an A.I. agent that can gather information from across the internet including text, images and PDFs, synthesise it into reports and provide the sources. It is able to do one search, and then follow on with other related searches, then synthesise all the information it has learned.

At the launch it was described as a tool that can undergo complex research “useful for people in finance, science and law.”

However, any outputs need to be fact checked and undergo scrutiny. As with all generative A.I. technologies it can still get things wrong or even make up information — what A.I. researchers call “hallucination.” Like ChatGPT and others, it might present false information and non-existent sources.

OpenAI also said this tool can struggle to distinguish authoritative information from rumours and often fails to accurately convey when it is uncertain about the information being delivered.

The tool is available to anyone with a ChatGPT Pro (US$200 per month) subscription.

 

Source: NY Times, OpenAI Unveils A.I. Tol that can do research online

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