[Music] chat GPT search is gunning for Google search. Let's see if it's any good. I'm going to take a first look at open AI chat GPT search and see what kind of results it serves up. Chat GPT search is currently only available for chat GPT Plus subscribers for $20 a month, chat GPT team users, and search GPT waitlist users. Although the waitlist for search GPT is now closed, chat GPT search will be rolling out to all users for free in the coming months. So, since I'm a chat GPT Plus subscriber, when I log into chat GPT and I'm using chat GPT 4, I now see a small globe icon in the message chat GPT field. When you hover over it, you will see search the web. You must click on the globe icon to enable chat GPT search. Click on it, and a list of trending topics will appear. I see information about the 2024 US election and some celebrity news, including the death of the legendary music producer.

Quincy Jones, so I'm a big fan of Quincy Jones, so I'm going to ask what was Quincy Jones's most famous song, and here are the results. ChatGPT will then answer in natural language, and it says that Michael Jackson's song Thriller, which is the title track to the album, was the biggest-selling album in history. It also mentions that another one of Quincy Jones's productions, Soul Bossa Nova, has gained widespread recognition. As you can see from ChatGPT's answer, it adds a clickable link to his Wikipedia page and YouTube music if you want to hear a playlist of Quincy Jones music. Unfortunately, I can't play that for y'all 'cause we'll get flagged, but it's nice to have a direct link to hear some of his most famous work. Below ChatGPT's answer is a small window that says sources. Click on it, and you'll see a list of links with citations and news about Quincy Jones, including the Wall Street Journal, Vanity Fair, and Pitchfork, or any news outlet that reported on the death of the prolific producer. Let's try

another. I'm taking my family to Monterey for the weekend, so let's see if chat GPT has any good suggestions for what we should do while we're there. So, I'm going to click on the chat GPT search icon and ask it. Let's see what it comes up with. [Music] So, it did provide some images. The first thing it says is the M Bay Aquarium, and it has a link with tips for little tykes. But my kids are 10 and 12, so they're not little tykes, but that's helpful. Um, we're going to go there. We are going to go to Cannery Row, probably Monterey Big Coastal Recreation Trail, whale watching tours. Probably won't do that. Fisherman's Wharf, Dennis the Menace Park. Ooh, that sounds kind of fun. My kids might like that. The monarch butterfly sanctuary and a 17-mile drive through Pebble Beach. Ooh, I'm a big golfer, so I'd love to drive through Pebble Beach. That would be amazing. Now, if I look at sources, it puts sources in the

right rail, and it has tips for types, and it's all the sources that were included in each of those little answers it gave me, so that's pretty cool. And then it has some pictures. If I click on the photo, so yeah, this is kind of helpful. I did hear that there was a haunted mansion tour in Monterey, so I'm going to ask it about [Music] that. Yes, Monterey offers several haunted tours that delve into its rich and eerie history. The Cannery Row Ghost Tour, Monterey Ghost Walking Tour by the US Ghost Adventures, and the Haunt Ghost Tours. So I might check some of those out just 'cause, you know, it might be fun to check out some haunted mansions in Monterey. Why not? So if I click on this link here, it'll take me to the website for the Haunt Ghost Tour. It's past Halloween, but still, it might be fun to go. ChatGPT also has a Chrome extension to switch your default search to ChatGPT. You'll see the option to get the

extens near the bottom of the page so I'll quickly walk you through getting the extension and setting it up. So I'm just going to simply go down here and click get extension. And here's the extension, has overview, some information, some reviews. So I'm just going to click add to Chrome, ADD [Music] extension. And Bam, there it is right there. So I'm going to test it out real quick and just open a new tab in Google Chrome and just ask it about CET. Tell me about CET [Music]. And Bam, it goes straight to chat GPT plus. And then it tells me all about cnet.com. So if you want your search engine to be chat GPT, this is pretty awesome. This extension just works automatically. I don't have to do anything. I don't have to click on it and then start a search. It'll just open a new tab and it's chat GPT. How cool is that? So when I did my first search, it said change back to Google search. Chrome does not want me to use chat GPT search.

then it gives you the option to change it back or keep it. I'm going to keep it for now. I'm going to try one more. Tell me about Pebble Beach and how can I drive through Pebble [Music] Beach. It's serving me up pictures and it's telling me all about Pebble Beach and it's saying please note that the 17-Mile Drive is a two-lane road allowing travel in both directions and it's advisable to allocate at least a few to fully appreciate the scenic beauty and attractions along the route. So it's given me a little advice on how much time I need to take and the size of the road. So that's all kind of helpful stuff. We're going to check it out. Well, that's how to use OpenAI's new ChatGPT search, which is a direct competitor to Google's Gemini search engine. Let me know in the comments what your go-to AI search engine is. And subscribe to CNET's massive YouTube channel for more AI news. Thanks for watching.

OpenAI's New ChatGPT Search Engine: My Hands-On Test

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