Though DuckAssist is being released in beta, DuckDuckGo said that if the beta goes well, it plans to release DuckAssist to all search users in the weeks ahead. "Inaccuracies can happen if our relevancy function is off, unintentionally omitting key sentences, or if there's an underlying error in the source material given."ĭuckDuckGo said DuckAssist is anonymous, doesn't use queries to train its AI model and doesn't share personally identifiable information with third parties. "There's a limit to the amount of information the feature can summarize," Weinberg wrote. The tool might struggle to correctly answer complex questions, too. He also wrote that if you're pretty sure Wikipedia has the answer to your question, adding "wiki" to any question also makes it more likely that DuckAssist will appear.ĭuckAssist can settle the age old question, "What color is 'the dress'?"ĭuckAssist won't always generate the correct answer, according to Weinberg. Weinberg wrote that wording a query in the form of a question will make it more likely that DuckAssist will generate a response. That means DuckAssist can answer questions like, "What is the capital of Nigeria?" better than questions with qualitative elements like, "What is the best Legend of Zelda game?" (But this writer says Majora's Mask.) When DuckAssist answers, it also links to the Wikipedia or Britannica article it pulled its answer from.įor now, the best way to use DuckAssist is to ask questions with straightforward answers, Gabriel Weinberg, DuckDuckGo's founder and CEO, wrote in a blog post. DuckAssist uses technology from ChatGPT creator OpenAI and Anthropic to summarize the answer and make the response more conversational.
Now DuckAssist can lend a hand, but it pulls from a smaller set of sources.Įnter a question into the DuckDuckGo search bar and DuckAssist scans Wikipedia, and occasionally Britannica, to generate an answer. Instant Answers taps various online sources to give you a quick answer to your query without you having to click one of the links in the search results.
Instead, it's an addition to the search engine's existing Instant Answers feature. Unlike ChatGPT or Microsoft's Bing AI, DuckAssist isn't a chatbot, DuckDuckGo says. Users of DuckDuckGo's browser apps or extensions can access a beta version of the feature now, for free. Privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo has a new optional artificial intelligence feature called DuckAssist.
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