I found out AI search is auto-internationalized?
Here's a quick observation I made on AI tech from my recent Product Hunt launch where I got more engagement/questions from an international audience than I expected. Long story short, I found out:
AI-based search can be automatically internationalized
Meaning, if you're making anything that requires search, using the right models, AI based searches can take query input in any language and still give you the relevant results.
Read on to see a mini-demo I made for a Spanish speaking customer prospect. Screenshots included.
Context
I built a no-code/low-code AI FAQ widget that businesses can use to answer any customer question in a few seconds. You can embed it on your website, link to it in your email signature, wherever; but the point is that I was able to make it work with many other languages without any changes in my search algorithm.
How is it "automatically internationalized"?
AI based searches use something called embeddings which is a fancy way of saying it uses numbers to represent "the meaning" of a word/phrase. So the English word "apple" has a very similar embedding to the French word for apple which is "pomme".
That makes this kind of search "universal" in a way. Better than older keyword style searches.
Alright, you probably just want to see it in action at this point. I'm not a Spanish speaker, so you'll forgive me if the Spanish itself isn't very good :). Here it is.
Demo
Creating the test AI FAQ (a fake car company): These are the FAQs the fake company created and which the AI uses to respond to queries. You would feed it with, say, 100 FAQs and relevant links about your business:
Querying the AI FAQ in Spanish. There's no special Spanish internationalization in my code. The below is answering a question about scheduling test drives; the user gets a direct answer and the link most likely to convert them:
And here's what I think is the coolest part. It seems to work cross-language in some limited scenarios. You can see the customer question is in English, the response is in English, but the source data (shown at the bottom) is actually written in Spanish.
I'm in the process of testing the non-English reliability for my international audience. As always, I recommend thorough testing especially when using AI, but it's still cool to see examples where AI can go beyond hype and be practically useful.
Happy hacking y'all. Let me know in the comments if you have any questions.
Product Hunt launch: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/frequentlyaskedai
FrequentlyAskedAI homepage: https://www.frequentlyaskedai.com
