There’s not currently a plan, but we do have a number of search-related AI features… so it’s interesting to consider. Current tools include:
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Personas like Forum Researcher, which can search using retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). This is from the AI Bot link to https://meta.discourse.org/discourse-ai/ai-bot/conversations and can also be used in Discourse chat.
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AI embeddings semantic search, these are search results that appear on full-page /search
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AI embeddings quick search, which is used to populate results in the search dropdown. This is especially useful for populating results in searches that would otherwise produce 0 results, like typos.
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Discobot Discoveries, which is additional sidebar content to searches in both the dropdown and full page
There are some tradeoffs with AI-first approaches, traditional search is still a good amount faster than RAG… but perhaps in cases like yours that’s ok and the search bar could be swapped out for an input that directly populates a query for the AI conversation page or a bot chat? Something like that would be possible to do from a theme component.