Listening guide: “Chatbots are supercharging search: Are we ready?”

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In Season 3 Episode 1 “Chatbots are supercharging search: Are we ready?” our guest is Will Knight, senior writer about artificial intelligence at Wired magazine. We discuss how ChatGPT is being applied to search and what some of the potential and pitfalls are of this new class of technology known as “generative AI.”