Re:Google dusts off the failed Google+ playbook to fight Cha...
by dmix on Friday March 10, 2023 @08:26AM
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> apparent to me that there's no real intelligence behind it
Does it even need to be to be useful?
A ChatGPT that is legitimately "intelligent" would basically be the El Dorado of tech. There's plenty of value between here and there.
The big issue IMO is people are going to Chatgpt's website explicitly and having certain high expectations. Or they use it via Bing expecting it to be a search engine answer machine. Once such an interface is more directly integrated into our lives in a clean way where people understand what it is and what the limitations are it could easily be an app that basically everyone has installed, but more like a super-useful tool like Google Maps rather than replacing Google. That's still a big business and major development for the industry.
And even if the consumer daily-used mobile app thing or some high-visibility Google integration turns out to be less interesting/useful than predicted, there's still a million niche business and hobby usecases.
Does it even need to be to be useful?
A ChatGPT that is legitimately "intelligent" would basically be the El Dorado of tech. There's plenty of value between here and there.
The big issue IMO is people are going to Chatgpt's website explicitly and having certain high expectations. Or they use it via Bing expecting it to be a search engine answer machine. Once such an interface is more directly integrated into our lives in a clean way where people understand what it is and what the limitations are it could easily be an app that basically everyone has installed, but more like a super-useful tool like Google Maps rather than replacing Google. That's still a big business and major development for the industry.
And even if the consumer daily-used mobile app thing or some high-visibility Google integration turns out to be less interesting/useful than predicted, there's still a million niche business and hobby usecases.