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My take: Github Copilot and similar products will replace many google queries in the near future, for code, but also for other specific domains. When I type a q
by joshuakarl 5y ago
My take: Github Copilot and similar products will replace many google queries in the near future, for code, but also for other specific domains. When I type a query, I'm essentially trying to summarize my context, and I can't compete with an advanced deep learning model that reduces my code to a 300-dimensional context vector. The same is true for a lawyer writing a legal document or a scientist writing an academic paper. Very curious to see the developments in the next few years.
- fault1 5y agoYeah, but Google does nearly the same thing with search personalization and context sensitive ranking. Almost all personalized information retrieval systems are some variant of this type of recipe since the late 90s no matter what mathematical model they use. Perhaps the problem for Google is that there is strong incentive for the content providers to play a cat and mouse game (aka SEO) with google. Depending on business model, anyone sufficiently popular in this space will probably have similar problems once companies have to either pay for content or revenue share. Github is a situation where people (open source developers) "donated" their code to Microsoft, but most of the world is not that egalitarian.