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Re:The New Bing with ChatGPT by huijzer on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @04:36PM (#34700111)
It sounds more like Counter-Positioning (details, e.g. [1]) by OpenAI/Microsoft. Google cannot compete or it would attack its own main income stream and risk losing income very fast. But if they wait, then people learn to work with Microsoft/OpenAI which would hurt them in the long run. Counter-Positioning creates an impossible situation which brought many giants down including Blockbuster.

[1]: https://www.lukethomas.com/counter-positioning/amp/

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Re:The New Bing with ChatGPT by mrtksn on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @05:01PM (#34700402)
It would suck for Google to make $20B from AI Chat instead of making $160B in Search, it wouldn't suck for Microsoft to make $20B from AI Chat instead $2B in Search.

If the AI assistants live to the promise, Google is screwed even if they make the best and most popular one.

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Re:The New Bing with ChatGPT by ryloric on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @10:43PM (#34703838)
Yeah. It won't change your logic but they made around $12B I think.

Even if they don't make a cent from AI Chat, it's still worth burning money on if nothing but to dethrone google as the default choice from the public's mind.

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