As we speak Macworld has launched a serious replace to Good Solutions. If you ask the device a query, you’ll now get an extended, more-detailed and better-structured reply that basically helps you get essentially the most from our in-depth journalism.
What’s Good Solutions
Good Solutions is a chatbot device that helps you get extra from our content material. It’s constructed utilizing Generative AI and content material written by our human editors.
The best way we work together with content material is altering. It wasn’t so way back you’ll have sifted by means of a printed journal for recommendation on the most recent shopper know-how, but it felt like a revolution when these previous mags converted to digital- and on-line editions. Nowadays, all the pieces you would ever need to learn is on the web – or extra probably watch on YouTube or TikTok.
The issue is available in discovering reliable, up-to-date info that exactly and instantly solutions your query, and most of us are likely to depend on search engines like google and yahoo and algorithms to determine that out for us, with various levels of success. However confronted with a web page stuffed with hyperlinks to visually related content material, you’re nonetheless a step away from the data you want – two, actually, if you have to additional refine your question.
Good Solutions is our new reader service that turns content material discovery on its head. You management the questions, the solutions, and the supply. It’s like having a Macworld editor at your beck and name, permitting you to request and obtain particular content material on demand. So why await the content material to search out you?
We’ve labored in partnership with Miso.ai to develop Good Solutions, a GenAI device (see What’s GenAI?) that pulls solely on Foundry‘s full catalog of English-language content material (written by people) to reply your natural-language questions. You’ll not solely profit from the skilled information of Macworld editors, however these of PCWorld, Tech Advisor and TechHive too, collectively overlaying the complete shopper know-how sphere.
Good Solutions is quick and environment friendly, which implies you don’t must scroll by means of pages of knowledge to search out what you want. You’ll be able to ask it something, from what’s the finest Apple Look ahead to diving to which printer do you have to purchase on your residence workplace, and even when is the following iPhone popping out or how do you pace up your Mac. You’ll get a solution in seconds.
It’s like having a Macworld editor at your beck and name… why await the content material to search out you?
Ask it a follow-up query too, for those who like, or browse the advisable studying for extra element on the subject. Good Solutions is intelligent sufficient to work out what it’s possible you’ll need to ask subsequent, and it’ll even present you the very best pricing for associated services to keep away from you having to look it out your self.
Good Solutions has been skilled on the kind of tech-related questions our readers are more likely to ask. Ask it a foolish or irrelevant query and also you’ll both get a foolish or irrelevant reply or no reply in any respect. Our precedence is to make sure Good Solutions is ready to adequately reply to questions on the subjects we do cowl.
Although Good Solutions is intrinsically linked to our editorial content material, our editorial operate stands independently. No article revealed on this web site has been created utilizing GenAI.
Intensive testing has been performed by our editors over the 2 years since we first launched Good Solutions in August 2025, with our suggestions used to retrain the mannequin. We wouldn’t be rolling this improve out in the present day if we weren’t assured that the solutions it gives are as reliable as if they’d come direct from our editorial staff.
This cycle of testing, suggestions, and retraining is ongoing and shall be vital as we proceed so as to add performance to Good Solutions – and that is simply the beginning of a course of that can finally put you in command of your individual content material expertise throughout Foundry-owned websites.
In fact, the actual testing comes from you. We’ll be analyzing all search information collected by Good Solutions, and cross-checking the standard of responses, however we’d additionally love to listen to your suggestions. You will get in contact with our Director of Content material Operations Marie Black or Director of Product and Knowledge Neil Bennett over electronic mail.
FAQ
How does Good Solutions work?
Good Solutions is predicated on a GenAI platform, constructed by our associate Miso.ai. Not like ChatGPT, Google Bard and different GenAI instruments that supply their info from all around the net, Good Solutions has been skilled solely on content material written by Foundry journalists. It responds to queries posed in pure language with a summarized reply and hyperlinks to associated info.
What’s GenAI?
Brief for Generative AI, GenAI is a sort of synthetic intelligence that is ready to mimic the neural networks of the human mind and, by means of machine studying of present content material, generate totally new content material within the type of textual content, pictures, video and audio. When given a immediate, resembling a chunk of natural-language textual content, the computational energy of GenAI permits it to ship a solution a lot sooner than can the human mind.
Can I belief Good Solutions?
Sure. Good Solutions gives solutions based mostly on articles written by Foundry journalists and doesn’t use information from any exterior sources, which might be unreliable or topic to copyright issues. Intensive testing has gone on behind the scenes to assist prepare the mannequin, so we’re glad that it is ready to present dependable info. We’ve additionally labored laborious with associate Miso.ai to get rid of ‘hallucinations’ – these are deceptive or wholly incorrect solutions which may be given when the reply will not be identified or the information required to reply the query is incomplete. If Good Solutions is unable to reply your query, it’s going to let you know so.
Is Good Solutions a risk to our editorial staff?
Completely not. Good Solutions can’t exist with out the skilled content material written by Foundry journalists. Its capacity to remain helpful and related is totally depending on it with the ability to study from their content material, and thus it’s not step one in some evil plan to interchange our staff of editors and lower prices. Good Solutions is a supplementary service for our readers, designed to assist content material discovery and improve the person expertise. Although we’ll make income from any adverts displayed on the web page and earn fee on hyperlinks to buy some services, Good Solutions additionally prices us cash to develop and run.
Is Good Solutions getting used to create editorial content material on Macworld?
No. Editorial articles feed into Good Solutions, however Good Solutions will not be used for the creation of editorial articles. Sooner or later we might use question information for article or FAQ subject recommendations.
What information is Good Solutions accumulating?
We’re recording queries submitted through Good Solutions to assist us perceive in what info our readers have an interest. Good Solutions additionally collects anonymized person information that permits us to higher perceive the pursuits and intent of readers visiting Foundry web sites. Study extra about Foundry’s Privateness Coverage, and Miso.ai’s Privateness Coverage.
