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Re:Tech’s defiance of economic gravity came to an abrupt end by birdymcbird on Monday December 26, 2022 @11:37AM (#34139184)
80% of their revenue comes from ads, which is google search. Chatgpt and any other startup who invests in something like chatgpt can upend googles core business model.

and no, google doesn’t have anything significant in this space. “Innovation” behind search was to slowly increase no. if paid ads in your results, driven by need to increase revenue and keep the rest of the 80% of biz afloat.

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Re:Tech’s defiance of economic gravity came to an abrupt end by screye on Monday December 26, 2022 @01:44PM (#34140480)
> and no, google doesn’t have anything significant in this space

LAMBDA and PaLM are literally the answer to Chat-GPT. Google is their closest competitor.

I do agree that they will lose their moat, and soon Google search will just be another tool among many.

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Re:Tech’s defiance of economic gravity came to an abrupt end by lossolo on Monday December 26, 2022 @02:31PM (#34140939)
And Google developed LaMDA model (superior to chatGPT) a lot of time before OpenAI, additionally without their research into transformers and publishing results, OpenAI would probably not even have ChatGPT now/yet.
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