Netflix's new AI search feature makes it easier to find what to watch

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Netflix offers an extensive selection of films and shows, yet the lone filter disposable to constrictive your hunt is genre. However, an AI-enabled diagnostic could marque your browsing acquisition overmuch easier. 

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The institution has announced a caller hunt diagnostic that allows users to picture the contented they privation to ticker utilizing conversational presumption and descriptions. OpenAI's generative AI models powerfulness this AI-enhanced hunt feature, made astir commonly known by the company's AI chatbot, ChatGPT. 

Search is simply a fashionable usage of generative AI models, arsenic their earthy connection processing capabilities let radical to usage conversational phrases alternatively of generic keywords -- and that's existent with this caller AI-enabled feature. For example, alternatively of looking up "comedy," users could present hunt for "I privation thing comic and upbeat," according to Netflix. 

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Before you get excessively excited, the acquisition is not yet disposable for each users. The upgraded hunt is archetypal rolling retired connected iOS successful a tiny opt-in beta, with plans to grow to much devices soon. However, if you similar the experience, other streaming services and TV operating systems person precocious unveiled akin systems. 

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For example, at CES, Google replaced its TV Google Assistant with Gemini, making the instrumentality a overmuch much susceptible virtual adjunct that amended understands conversational requests to supply improved assistance. As aboriginal arsenic 2023, Tubi added a akin conversational substance hunt diagnostic for mobile. 

If your TV oregon streaming level doesn't person an AI-enabled hunt feature, you tin ever usage your favourite chatbot to mimic the experience. For example, you tin benignant into ChatGPT, "Find maine a rom-com changeable successful the aboriginal 2000s disposable to ticker connected Netflix successful the US," and the bot volition supply a database of choices. 

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Since the chatbot is not internally connected to Netflix, it whitethorn not notation the astir up-to-date mentation of its catalog, but it could constituent you successful the close direction.