Search as we currently know it (search bar, results, filters, pages, etc.) has come very far and fulfills many different functionalities. This is especially true when we know the keywords needed to find what we're looking for or when we know which documents contain the information we want. However, when the results are documents with long texts, we need an additional step besides reading and summarizing to get the final answer. So, to make this process easier companies such as Google and their Search Generative Experience (SGE) use AI to complement the search results via AI summaries.
What if I told you you could do the same with Elastic?
In this article, you will learn to create a React component that will display an AI summary answering the user questions along with the search results to help users, answering their questions faster. We will also ask the model to provide citations, so that answers are grounded to the search results.
The end results will look like this: