I'm very curious about this. I'm starting to develop an irrational hatred of all things AI which obviously clouds my judgement, so I'm not sure if I see it fail

I'm very curious about this. I'm starting to develop an irrational hatred of all things AI which obviously clouds my judgement, so I'm not sure if I see it failing because I want it to fail so much, or because it actually cannot work. But there is a fundamental difference between Google search and ChatGPT. Google search (or any search, so far) just point to sources of information, and we can then evaluate those for reputation, reliability, accuracy, and in the end form an opinion. ChatGPT speaks in its own name and affirms things, without ever sourcing them, that are sometimes wildly incorrect. The sourcing problem is itself huge, because it makes it so easy to poison the well without a trace.