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This is the same situation Kodak found themselves in years ago. Do you accept the business landscape has changed and accept a significantly smaller role in the

by cybaz 4y ago

This is the same situation Kodak found themselves in years ago. Do you accept the business landscape has changed and accept a significantly smaller role in the market, or do you hope that somehow the alternative becomes unpalatable and you can keep your market position.

bitL 4y ago
The business landscape has not changed yet, it's still early stages and there are no competitors utilizing the tech to displace Google. However, one can now clearly see the threat and what might transpire in the next few years.
- MacsHeadroom 4y ago
  27% of professionals use chatGPT for work already.[0] If you ask what it's replacing, most will say google. [0] https://thehill.com/policy/technology/3821400-nearly-30-percent-of-professionals-say-they-have-used-chatgpt-at-work/ https://thehill.com/policy/technology/3821400-nearly-30-perc...
  - tuyiown 4y ago
    > 27% of professionals use chatGPT for work already.[0] > found that 27 percent of professionals have used the program to help them with work-related tasks. «Have used», as free test, at least once. Maybe twice. Tomorrow ? Until real value, habits and serious problems are established, my bracket of day to day for professional use is still opened between 26% - 1%.
  - aatd86 4y ago
    Have to admit that I find ChatGPT's ability to provide customized code examples uncanny. It's often a good starting point. Sometimes there isn't much to change if at all. It can even design some custom algorithm. When you know what you're doing, it's a very nice helper.
    - arthurcolle 4y ago
      Yeah, I personally find ChatGPT to be easily 1 to 2 orders of magnitude better than Copilot, specifically for generating code or transmuting code from one language into another language. Really powerful.
      - nodemaker 4y ago
        I wonder why that is since they are both basically using gpt3 as base.
        brookst 4y ago
        I don’t know the glue, but ChatGPT is dramatically better at understanding context and goals, and it has that whole refinement layer for iterating on responses. There are also things chatgpt can’t/won’t do that GPT-3 will, like writing music.
  - freejazz 4y ago
    27% of professionals use chatGPT for work already what planet do you live on? I work in midtown manhattan, I bet if I walked down the street, 75% wouldn't even know what chatGPT is, let alone that the other 25% actually use it.
  - eddsh1994 4y ago
    That's impossible. They must have asked this survey at a Silicon Valley networking event on AI or something. Rough search shows there are 63,644,000 "professional workers" in the US so this survey is saying 17,183,880 Americans are using ChatGPT at work. How can anyone seriously believe that stat?
  - akomtu 4y ago
    87% of stats surveys are made up.
WastingMyTime89 4y ago
But Google is investing in the research. They could become Kodak if they were distanced but it's not the case at this point. They just refuse to be the leader they could be for the moment.
- binarymax 4y ago
  Kodak had some of the most advanced and extensive photo research of anyone. They had early digital cameras but couldn’t let go of the film processing revenue (so they came up with the “advantix” failure). Kodak had so much research that they pretty much survived on licensing their patent portfolio.
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unoti 4y ago
It’s the inventors dilemma: do they embrace new products outside of their historical core cash cow, or do they stick with the cash cow? Search and ads are where the history is, but empowering a million different ai powered products via an api is the future. While empowering ai products for third parties is a boon for the cloud business, running those api’s has a business model akin to “trading time for money” rather than directly getting a cut of revenue. It seems less sexy to be a commodity provider of AI rather than the one that makes the products and getting a direct share of revenue rather than a share of cost. But I have heard that during the gold rush it was better to be a tool and infrastructure seller than to be a prospector.
- visarga 4y ago
  Microsoft is squarely positioning itself to be the top provider of cloud AI. They want to sell the shovels in this gold rush.

by cybaz 4y ago

bitL 4y ago

The business landscape has not changed yet, it's still early stages and there are no competitors utilizing the tech to displace Google. However, one can now clearly see the threat and what might transpire in the next few years.

MacsHeadroom 4y ago
27% of professionals use chatGPT for work already.[0] If you ask what it's replacing, most will say google. [0] https://thehill.com/policy/technology/3821400-nearly-30-percent-of-professionals-say-they-have-used-chatgpt-at-work/ https://thehill.com/policy/technology/3821400-nearly-30-perc...
- tuyiown 4y ago
  > 27% of professionals use chatGPT for work already.[0] > found that 27 percent of professionals have used the program to help them with work-related tasks. «Have used», as free test, at least once. Maybe twice. Tomorrow ? Until real value, habits and serious problems are established, my bracket of day to day for professional use is still opened between 26% - 1%.
- aatd86 4y ago
  Have to admit that I find ChatGPT's ability to provide customized code examples uncanny. It's often a good starting point. Sometimes there isn't much to change if at all. It can even design some custom algorithm. When you know what you're doing, it's a very nice helper.
  - arthurcolle 4y ago
    Yeah, I personally find ChatGPT to be easily 1 to 2 orders of magnitude better than Copilot, specifically for generating code or transmuting code from one language into another language. Really powerful.
    - nodemaker 4y ago
      I wonder why that is since they are both basically using gpt3 as base.
      - brookst 4y ago
        I don’t know the glue, but ChatGPT is dramatically better at understanding context and goals, and it has that whole refinement layer for iterating on responses. There are also things chatgpt can’t/won’t do that GPT-3 will, like writing music.
- freejazz 4y ago
  27% of professionals use chatGPT for work already what planet do you live on? I work in midtown manhattan, I bet if I walked down the street, 75% wouldn't even know what chatGPT is, let alone that the other 25% actually use it.
- eddsh1994 4y ago
  That's impossible. They must have asked this survey at a Silicon Valley networking event on AI or something. Rough search shows there are 63,644,000 "professional workers" in the US so this survey is saying 17,183,880 Americans are using ChatGPT at work. How can anyone seriously believe that stat?
- akomtu 4y ago
  87% of stats surveys are made up.

WastingMyTime89 4y ago

But Google is investing in the research. They could become Kodak if they were distanced but it's not the case at this point. They just refuse to be the leader they could be for the moment.

binarymax 4y ago
Kodak had some of the most advanced and extensive photo research of anyone. They had early digital cameras but couldn’t let go of the film processing revenue (so they came up with the “advantix” failure). Kodak had so much research that they pretty much survived on licensing their patent portfolio.

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unoti 4y ago

It’s the inventors dilemma: do they embrace new products outside of their historical core cash cow, or do they stick with the cash cow? Search and ads are where the history is, but empowering a million different ai powered products via an api is the future. While empowering ai products for third parties is a boon for the cloud business, running those api’s has a business model akin to “trading time for money” rather than directly getting a cut of revenue. It seems less sexy to be a commodity provider of AI rather than the one that makes the products and getting a direct share of revenue rather than a share of cost. But I have heard that during the gold rush it was better to be a tool and infrastructure seller than to be a prospector.

visarga 4y ago
Microsoft is squarely positioning itself to be the top provider of cloud AI. They want to sell the shovels in this gold rush.