Ask HN: Why did Google threaten its own business by publishing the GPT paper?

Re:Ask HN: Why did Google threaten its own business by publi... by strangattractor on Monday January 30, 2023 @01:19PM (#34584046)

I am not convinced that ChatGPT is all that much of a threat to Google. Exactly how difficult would it be for Google to reproduce ChatGPT? They have access to all the training data and crawl it regularly. They have the infrastructure in place to make the model and integrate it into search. What am I missing here?

Unless OpenAI has some IP they cannot use it would seem that they have done Google a favor by demonstrating the potential of the technology. If my memory is correct one cannot patent an algorithm.

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Re:Ask HN: Why did Google threaten its own business by publi... by sblom on Monday January 30, 2023 @03:07PM (#34585625)

ChatGPT's threat to Google isn't that Google can't match it--it's that it changes the approach to search results from displaying lists of results where it's "natural" to insert sponsored listings to a more conversational approach where ad opportunities will be rarer (or at least entirely different).

If users prefer the newer, interactive approach to exploring search results, Google's long-standing business model will require a significant update.

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Re:Ask HN: Why did Google threaten its own business by publi... by randomluck040 on Monday January 30, 2023 @04:40PM (#34586817)

In my mind you might as well place sponsored content into a conversation and hide it maybe even better than in search results as a list.

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Re:Ask HN: Why did Google threaten its own business by publi... by lttlrck on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @12:23AM (#34591518)

Product placement.

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Re:Ask HN: Why did Google threaten its own business by publi... by Geloto on Monday January 30, 2023 @04:26PM (#34586615)

Google already has something like it.

It also has imagine

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