Posted on 12/25/2022 7:08:27 PM PST by FarCenter
IN BRIEF Sundar Pichai is apparently all in a pickle over OpenAI's ChatGPT engine, and is gearing up Google to meet the perceived threat.
According to an internal memo seen by the New York Times, Pichai has "upended the work of numerous groups inside the company to respond to the threat that ChatGPT," and is plucking staff from other divisions to meet the threat to the OpenAI's plans. It's reportedly considered a "Code Red" for the Chocolate Factory.
At issue is whether Google's core product, search, will be displaced by AI systems that can give more accurate research results, and that's a big if, for the moment at least.
"No company is invincible; all are vulnerable," said Margaret O'Mara, a professor at the University of Washington. "For companies that have become extraordinarily successful doing one market-defining thing, it is hard to have a second act with something entirely different."
The report suggests that Google will make a series of AI announcements on May to meet the growing threats to the search giant's business model. We'll see if these are functional products or just Google playing catch up.
Google has dominated the search market for 20 years, and anything that threatens that highly lucrative business - which makes up around 90 percent of Alphabet's profits - is something Sundar might well have reason to fear.
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Reading KilledbyGoogle, it appears they acquire products or create them and abandon them, leaving customers in a lurch.
They seem to have difficulty executing anything not search related.
If you pull out the politics, Google’s search engine is very good.
For political searches, they have a cool technique to control the results, which is invisible to the users. Basically, when you type in “President Bush”, for example, they replace the search with “President Bush idiot”, and you get the results of that search (but never see the word “idiot”).
I have to admit, it’s a clever way to control the results.
If you pull out the politics, Google’s search engine is very good.“
Maybe but that is an impossibility. It’s baked in and the users has no way turn it off.
I tested it for research. It is promising.
Well...he is indeed an idiot
If Alphabet is to survive, it needs to fire it’s Indian management team.
“Maybe but that is an impossibility. It’s baked in and the users has no way turn it off.”
Agree, but many things aren’t political (yet), and it’s still good for that.
ChatGPT is a revolution waiting in the wings. Journalism, graphic design… even teaching itself is very soon… VERY SOON… going to be extinct professions.
On top of that, I don’t think ChatGPT is yet a direct competitor of Google because ChatGPT doesn’t return sources and links (at least not that I have discovered).
I have always understood that goo primary dollars are from US governmentwith large data centers. They provide cloud for many with of course the opportunity to scan all. all.
The search engine and all other ancillary services are nothing but vacuums
I use dogpile. Scroll past sponsored and suggestions to get to real
Modern politics, modern religion and modern science.
Pretty much the story with the big tech down the line.
Whether it is google, wikipedia, yahoo, reddit and ofc twitter pre Musk etc... when it comes to those three topics.
At issue is whether Google's core product, search, will be displaced by AI systems that can give more accurate research results
Sorry, but I see this as the future of censorship.
The genie is out of the bottle.
Google became such a powerful company by helping people find what they want, but it has become the company that helps people find what Google wants them to find.
OpenAI’s ChatGPT is very powerful. I’ve used it to do some real work already. I’ve also tested to see if it can do humor. The answer: not too well... but a little. What I found most interesting is that I could not get it to do a roast because it is programmed to not insult anyone because that capability could be used for hate speech. I’m sure, at some point, it will be jailbroken. But this means that whoever controls an app built on it will be able to do the same sort of traffic steering that Google does now.
I would say the bias that runs throughout the Google search algorithms has way more impact than you think. Even the most benign non political searches run though the Google thought police protocol.
“I would say the bias that runs throughout the Google search algorithms has way more impact than you think. Even the most benign non political searches run though the Google thought police protocol.”
I won’t argue that, I’m just saying that it’s much harder to rig non-political topics. For example, trying to claim 2+2 does not always equal 4 (to help minorities who are no longer being taught math) is certainly possible, but MUCH HARDER to sell to the general public than, say, ‘Russian Collusion’ (for example) - hence they have no choice except to be honest.
but MUCH HARDER to sell to the general public
If they can convince people that c02 is a pollutant, they are working on the math, it doesn’t stop them.
So what does stop them?
Fair point, it is worth noting there are other search that are are not as tainted. DDG used to be pretty straight but I think they have been turned
Google’s search engine is good. But a lot of the web pages are bad.
But OpenAI doesn’t give you 50 web pages for you to look at which may or may not answer your question.
OpenAI returns very concise answers, usually excellently formatted with bullet points or numbered steps.
I see OpenAI dramatically reducing my google searches in the future.
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