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I don't think this is true at all. First you'd have to show that the new thing is useful in the same ways that the old thing is, and that the new thing has a vi

I don't think this is true at all. First you'd have to show that the new thing is useful in the same ways that the old thing is, and that the new thing has a viable business model. I don't think ChatGPT has actually done that yet. Can they even charge enough to pay costs? If they do will enough people use it? And the questions about accuracy are material: if the LLM lies all the time, can it really replace a search engine? What do you do with a months old training set? Figuring out how to combine search + LLM is the problem and OpenAI doesn't have a search engine.

EnergyAmy 4y ago
Even if it sometimes lied, I would pay real money for a service that answered questions like "How do I cook basmati rice in an instant pot? Google has lost the plot on queries like this, and I don't have time to wade through the masses of bullshit it returns. I would guess that the average person would be in the same boat, preferring a simple answer that might be wrong to an endless stream of blog spam.
wkat4242 4y ago
They're going to charge $42 a month which is a lot. That should cover the costs easily. It will put people off from using it for personal purposes though. Where I live in Spain that's a lot of money. About half my monthly energy bill (and I'm an IT enthusiast with 24/7 servers and a 3080Ti game PC)