Are we in an AI Overhang?

Re:Are we in an AI Overhang? by riffraff on Monday July 27, 2020 @12:08PM (#23966429)

If you're running a search engine maybe.

But everyday people are used to getting 80% answers by search engines, I don't think many would pay for something that is "like google, but a bit better".

This seems the be current issue for many things that we used to pay for (dictionaries, encyclopaedias, newspapers, etc), and I'm not sure this would be different.

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Re:Are we in an AI Overhang? by tambourine_man on Monday July 27, 2020 @04:43PM (#23969194)

> "like google, but a bit better"

For simple queries like “who was the president of country X in YYYY” it’s probably just a bit better (if cached, of course, Google search is wicked fast).

But for more complex queries, Google is still remarkably dumb. Or downright insolent, ignoring my verbatim selection or quoted terms.

I’d pay good money for scarily smart search and a “grep for the web” service, that included JSON, CSS, JavaScript, comments, whatever. A toggle button for dumb/smart search

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Re:Are we in an AI Overhang? by rytill on Monday July 27, 2020 @12:13PM (#23966472)

I would easily pay money for something that is like Google, but a bit better.

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Re:Are we in an AI Overhang? by cambalache on Monday July 27, 2020 @03:47PM (#23968696)

I wont

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Re:Are we in an AI Overhang? by sktguha on Monday July 27, 2020 @03:35PM (#23968591)

google's majority revenue is from search. So bit better than google, particularly if it is integrated into bing (as microsoft has invested in openAI) , and allows bing to capture market share from google, would be really lucrative

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