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OpenAI has had huge mindshare with students recently. Every (ish) kid who writes an essay or needs information summarised is hitting ChatGPT. Kids are where cha

OpenAI has had huge mindshare with students recently. Every (ish) kid who writes an essay or needs information summarised is hitting ChatGPT. Kids are where change happens, ask Facebook. They get on new things instantly - within days we were reading reports of kids writing essays with the latest tool. Young people are also naturally viral, sharing the cool new tool with entire classes. This is a marketer’s dream. You don’t need to change how sluggish corporates work, just focus on kids and watch them work. Google has to fight to get that mindshare back. Not sure I’d be building my company on the ADHD-fueled Google roundabout that generates and destroys systems monthly. You just know whatever they release is someone’s promotion project, until it’s in GA.

sangnoir 4y ago
> OpenAI has had huge mindshare with students recently. Clubhouse was once the new hotness - until it wasn't.
- rogerclark 4y ago
  Clubhouse wasn't popular with kids. It was popular, and only briefly, with adult tech people.
  - sangnoir 4y ago
    True. I was only highlighting that popularity can be fleeting - and was for Clubhouse. ChatGPT's popularity may equally be a flash in the pan.
- richardw 4y ago
  There's no comparison. Microsoft didn't consider integrating Clubhouse into one of their primary consumer platforms. One of the biggest software companies in the world has looked at the state of play and decided that this was important enough to shift their search strategy as quickly as they can. I didn't say it's a guarantee of success, it's a possibility. There is a non-zero chance that ChatGPT takes market share away from Google unless it moves very quickly. Having said that, the status-quo play is obviously the easiest bet. It's far easier to be Google than OpenAI or Microsoft at this point. https://www.wsj.com/articles/microsoft-adds-chatgpt-ai-technology-to-bing-search-engine-11675793525 https://www.wsj.com/articles/microsoft-adds-chatgpt-ai-techn...

sangnoir 4y ago

> OpenAI has had huge mindshare with students recently. Clubhouse was once the new hotness - until it wasn't.

rogerclark 4y ago
Clubhouse wasn't popular with kids. It was popular, and only briefly, with adult tech people.
- sangnoir 4y ago
  True. I was only highlighting that popularity can be fleeting - and was for Clubhouse. ChatGPT's popularity may equally be a flash in the pan.
richardw 4y ago
There's no comparison. Microsoft didn't consider integrating Clubhouse into one of their primary consumer platforms. One of the biggest software companies in the world has looked at the state of play and decided that this was important enough to shift their search strategy as quickly as they can. I didn't say it's a guarantee of success, it's a possibility. There is a non-zero chance that ChatGPT takes market share away from Google unless it moves very quickly. Having said that, the status-quo play is obviously the easiest bet. It's far easier to be Google than OpenAI or Microsoft at this point. https://www.wsj.com/articles/microsoft-adds-chatgpt-ai-technology-to-bing-search-engine-11675793525 https://www.wsj.com/articles/microsoft-adds-chatgpt-ai-techn...