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End consumers don't care. This is the thing. We live in a total bubble. While for us this is really interesting, the long tail don't care. We're going to see ov
by asim 4y ago
End consumers don't care. This is the thing. We live in a total bubble. While for us this is really interesting, the long tail don't care. We're going to see over the coming years how this plays out. Redefining the search format is a good first step, whether or not it will lead to stronger adoption of the Bing search product is not clear.
- LesZedCB 4y agoi heard random old folks in the cafe i like to work at talking about chatGPT. it's not a niche topic in the slightest little bit. if the defacto location for using chatGPT becomes bing.com (or whatever rebranding) that's huge.
- toomuchtodo 4y agoMy friend’s college age kids are using ChatGPT for dating app conversations. Illinois and Iowa colleges. Bringing ChatGPT to Bing would be similar to what GitHub did for MS’ DevRel.
- dougmwne 4y agoI love that because I have heard similar anecdotes about using ChatGPT to respond to coworkers. In the end it will just be ChatGPT talking to itself on Tinder and Slack.
- HDThoreaun 4y agoMy dad is a doctor who is now using chatGPT to respond to questions from his residents. It only works half the time or so, but he will consistently put their question in to see how ot does.
- zht 4y agoHIPAA?
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- xboxnolifes 4y agoThere's no patient health information here...
- ben_w 4y ago> dating app conversations I'm screaming internally at this. I hadn't even thought of that, but now you say it, it's very plausible. It writes convincingly, avoids controversy, and with extensive but imperfect knowledge in far more domains than any real human, of course people will use it for dating.
- UncleEntity 4y agoNow someone just has to come up with a chatGPT powered sex toy to cut out the middleman.
- qwertox 4y agoMy 70+ year old mom has been talking about ChatGPT these last 2 weeks as if she were a fanboy (I think she absolutely loves the sound of the name), she wouldn't know if she had Edge open and doesn't know that one can use browser tabs. When asked if she tried it, she not only didn't even realize that it was accessible to her, but didn't even bother to register to actually try it. If Microsoft is smart about it, they call it "Microsoft Search with ChatGPT", do their "we'll place you a shortcut on your desktop without asking"-thing with an icon named "ChatGPT" which launches Edge even if Chrome or FFX is the default, and shows the "Microsoft Search with ChatGPT" page with an auto-submitted question like "If animals could talk, which species do you think would be the funniest to have a conversation with and why?". Let them ask a few questions and finally ask them if they want to set Edge as their new default browser.
- aikinai 4y agoShe loves the sound of the name? Is there a clever way to say it I’m missing? I’ve never heard it out loud and always assumed it’s Chat Gee Pee Tee.
- icepat 4y agoI think it's just an endearing quirk of his (likely) elderly mother.
- undersuit 4y agoElide the Gee to Eee and you have Chatty Petey?
- qwertox 4y agoI believe Chachipiti sounds like something a little girl could say over and over again during the day. Another interesting thing is that she calls Google's recommendation engine "Adam". It's "Adam" who selects the photos which get shown in "this day a year ago" and other automatically generated collections. "Adam" is what makes Google smart for her, the restless data collector and invader of privacy.
- bombela 4y ago
- lern_too_spel 4y agoIt would be substantially better than Google search, so it would grab share quickly. I don't see it happening though. According to Sundar's blog post, even Google doesn't have the hardware to run ChatGPT at web search qps scale. If they pull it off, Sundar's Bard blog post would be a huge egg-on-face moment for Google, even bigger than when DeepMind said it would make a Go announcement soon and Zuck tried to steal its thunder. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jan/28/go-playing-facebook-spoil-googles-ai-deepmind https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jan/28/go-playin...
- hrez 4y agoChatGPT hits estimated 100 million monthly active users. Pretty sure every student heard of it and many of them tried it. Consumers don't care what it's called, but they surely will use it. Especially if it's built into a familiar search engine.
- tamrix 4y agoYou're right. End consumers don't care. Which is why Microsoft will stuff it into the desktop search. Users will just type and ChatGPT has customers. They won't know what it's called or care that it even exists but they'll be using it.
- seydor 4y agocalled something better than Cortana probably
- pessimizer 4y agoHN thinking it's some sort of secret club involved in issues that nobody normal is actually concerned about is the most insular thing that HN does. Yes, people are concerned about privacy and AI.
- elforce002 4y agoYep. You're absolutely right. It'll be really difficult for people to switch to bing just because they added chatGPT or something along those lines. Google doesn't have any competition outside the US and the EU.
- mercer 4y agoIt sounds like you might live in a particular bubble, because if anything I find my computer nerd friends a bit dismissive, overall, while everyone else loves this shit.