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Meanwhile ChatGPT had 100 million users and 13 million daily users in January. They accumulated a lot of data and while I’m sure the Google engineers are very

Meanwhile ChatGPT had 100 million users and 13 million daily users in January. They accumulated a lot of data and while I’m sure the Google engineers are very competent and fast, their large scale testing may not produce as much useful data. I think Google will manage in the long term, but for the current race it looks difficult.

TaylorAlexander 4y ago
This all assumes it’s even a good idea. Google is always extremely careful with their brand. We harp on them for canceling projects but to most people google is a search engine. And yes the quality of results has steadily declined for a long time, but deploying a large language model in google search has the potential to cause serious negative outcomes unlike slowly degrading search results. I really don’t see it as a race, which presumes that moving first is an advantage. OpenAI is building their brand and wants to be known as an AI company, so it makes sense to release early versions of their system. Google is a well established company that can easily deploy this technology when they think it’s ready and eclipse OpenAI in users overnight. But even then it’s not about having the most users, it’s about building a new platform for the next 10+ years of search. Google is already the default. They can take their time and still do just fine.