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The press talked about a lot of fads for weeks, like PokemonGO. At this point there's nothing to indicate that this is or isn't a fad. Everything starts like th

The press talked about a lot of fads for weeks, like PokemonGO. At this point there's nothing to indicate that this is or isn't a fad. Everything starts like this: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?geo=US&q=bing,chatGPT,AI%20chat,AI https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?geo=US&q=bing,chatG... And many things end up like this: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=google%20plus,pokemongo,game%20of%20thrones https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=g... Not trying to say AI chat isn't cool, but I think a common tendency is for humans to overhype the wins and oversell the losses. Seeing a lot of people praise Bing's chat as revolutionary is cute because while it's a 10x better AskJeeves, it's not even on par with incumbent search engines at this point. The only real "innovation" here is that they changed the interface from search to natural language context-preserving chat. That itself would be meaningless if it didn't achieve parity with search...

siva7 4y ago
Even if PokemonGo is in your terms a fad (what isn't if your definition of fad gets too broad?), it was wildly successful in its product category. I believe there is a misconception about the goal to achieve parity with a traditional search engine (what ever that means). Yes, it's part of a brand whose main product is a search engine. Bing Chat doesn't need to compete with a traditional search engine to prove its usefulness as we have seen with many examples. In the same sentiment of your comment one could also say a common tendency in (some) humans is to undersell the wins.