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I get the urge for people to dump on Google. Search makes good profits and makes a tempting target. And ChatGPT is cool in a "look my computer can write" kind
by bruce511 4y ago
I get the urge for people to dump on Google. Search makes good profits and makes a tempting target.
And ChatGPT is cool in a "look my computer can write" kind of way. But it's kinda tangential to search, is (currently) laughingly inaccurate, and doesn't seem like an ideal ad platform (yet).
Which leaves me wondering, is this the next "touchscreen" moment, or is it the next "3D TV" moment?
If course it'll find usefulness going forward. It'll get better, and hopefully more accurate. But with my jaundiced eye, trained on endless hype-and-fail cycles, I've yet to be convinced.
One thing's for sure though, it's certainly captured the media's attention. Seldom have I seen a tech get into the public head as fast as this.
It writes very well, and the layperson does not expect their computer to lie, so if you accept what it says is true, then it really looks amazing.
- Silverback_VII 4y agoGoogle has with LaMDA a similar or even better system than ChatGPT but obviously, they are losing the race because they are too busy making it as political correct and harmless as possible.
- muzani 4y agoI think it's a steam engine moment, similar to the one by James Watt. ChatGPT is something actually commercially viable after decades of research on AI. Replacing search would be like replacing horses. The first locomotive was about 2 decades after the Watt engine. But the Ford assembly lines were what really replaces horses, about 137 years later. Of course technological progress today is a lot faster. But probably slower than everyone expects. It's not likely to kill Google next year, but PageRank style searching will likely be replaced with conversational style questioning given enough decades.