AI-centric products are to Google what MP3-centric products were to Sony in 1996. They have had the tech for years but they aren’t making real strides to produ

AI-centric products are to Google what MP3-centric products were to Sony in 1996. They have had the tech for years but they aren’t making real strides to productize it for fear it will diminish their currently-dominant revenue streams. With Sony, they owned big Music and Movie production companies so they were conflicted. Big parts of the company didn’t really want MP3/4 to take off. So the company that first dominated portable music (Walkman) dragged their feet made terrible products while Apple made the iPod and came to nearly own the entire business. So it is with Google. Imagine a world where a something better than ChatGPT is also hooked to the real-time net and has a flexible/portable UI —-like a smart-browser. It’s conversational, ask for what you want, it delivers. It suggests things that delight you. It can handle pretty much any format. No need for search means no place for ads. No need to sift through hundreds of superfluous SEO-driven words and in-page ads to get to your recipe. No need to watch watch ads in video or watch any of the superfluous filler to get to the content you want. Google has already explored this world and has built and given access to some such tools. But like Sony, they aren’t all that excited about a product that makes search, browsing and really all information access different than the current model that they know and dominate.