A week ago, Openai published a tool that can go online Buy shopping or book a restaurant reservation. Now it offers AI technology that can collect information on the Internet and synthesize it in concise reports.
Openai unveiled the new tool, called Deep Research, with a demonstration on YouTube on Sunday, a few days after showing technology to legislators, political decision -makers and other Washington officials.
“He can perform complex research tasks that could take a person from 30 minutes to 30 days,” said Kevin Weil, Openai Product Director, during the event in Washington. On the other hand, in -depth research can accomplish such tasks in five to 30 minutes, depending on the complexity.
Researchers in artificial intelligence call this type of technology a IA agent. While chatbots can answer questions, write poems and generate imagesagents can use others Software and services on the internet. This could involve anything from the dinner order via Doordash at the summary of information on the Internet.
During the Capitol Hill briefing, Mr. Weil showed the technology for collecting information on Albert Einstein. He asked the tool to write a detailed report on the physicist for a staff member of the hypothetical Senate preparing for a conference hearing where Einstein is a candidate for the US Energy Secretary.
In addition to providing information on the history and personality of Einstein, he generated five questions that a senator could ask the physicist to determine if he was the right person for work.
“He can surf the web and understand the text and the images and the PDF,” said Mr. Weil. “And it can make him recursively. He can do a research, and this leads to other research, then he can synthesize all the information she has learned. »»
Weil said the reports generated by the tool included quotes showing where the information had been found. But AI technologies like this can still be mistaken or even invent information – a phenomenon that IA researchers call “hallucination. “This may mean that it provides incorrect quotes.
OPENAI said that the tool could find it difficult to distinguish information from rumors and that it has often failed to transmit precisely when it was not sure of the information it provided.
However, Mr. Weil argued that the tool could help the United States accelerate economic growth. He added that the tool would be particularly useful for people in fields such as finance, science and law.
(The New York Times has heard OPENAI and his partner, Microsoft, accusing them of copyright violation of the content of the news linked to AI systems. Openai and Microsoft have denied these complaints.)
OPENAI said that, from Sunday, in -depth research would be available for all those who have subscribed to Chatgpt Pro, a service of $ 200 per month which gives access to all the latest tools of the company. It also plans to offer the tool via its other paid services.
The tool is based on the same technology that stimulates Chatgpt. This technology is what AI researchers call a neural network – A mathematical system that can acquire skills by analyzing the data.
In recent months, Openai has developed versions of technology that can “reason” through tasks, determining by trials and errors what actions to take. In -depth research is based on the new company’s reasoning technology, OPENAI O3.