Those are products with AI... but that's not enough to make them AI products. I wouldn't have bet on Microsoft, but on this side they are one step beyond everyone else.

This feels different.

In the case of recommendation systems, the unconscious consumer is wholly unaware of the witchcraft occurring on the backend.

OpenAI's ChatGPT, Midjourney, HuggingFace, and their kin, are commoditising a technology that was historically resigned to hidden artefacts, whose input was limited to system calls, not user calls.

I suspect google actually is using their LLM tech behind the scenes to summarise pages to show better results. I’ve noticed the on search snipits seem to know the exact bit of text on the page that answers my question.

But they don’t directly show you generated text because it’s still kind of whack.

> I’ve noticed the on search snipits seem to know the exact bit of text on the page that answers my question.

This must be new, right? I noticed this too and to be honest, it immediately improved my search experience, which had gotten very bad.

Yeah I had noticed it a few days ago and realised there was something special going on.