The thing is: Google is threatened for the first time in its decades of history. It might not be better, yet, but it definitely is a real and existential threat to Google.

Google is threatened by MS and OA, OA is threatened by Stable Diffusion and MiniGPT-4. We are wondering if there will still be developer work in 10 years. Everyone is threatened. But the direction seems good - open sourcing such models means everyone will benefit, it's just assumed you can use a chatbot, nothing special. And for the time being all these bots are dependent on human in the loop. There is no single high stakes situation where you can let it run unsupervised. That means we are kind of in the tall ladder to get to the moon situation.

If anything we will have more work because we will have more people capable of churning it out at a predictable rate.

Eh. Remember when Google was threatened by DuckDuckGo and other privacy search engines? Google is always being "threatened" by something or the other.

I just can't get over the ugly visual design and haphazard UX on bing.com.

For instance: That Microsoft Rewards counter? Ugh.

I think chatgtp itself with access to search / wolfram / apps etc is a more serious competitor than Bing.