AI is taking marketshare from search slowly. More and more people will go to the AI to find things and not a search bar. It will be a crisis for Google in 5-10 years.

I think I agree with you. I signed up for Perplexity Pro ($20/month) many months ago thinking I would experiment with it a month and cancel. Even though I only make about a dozen interactions a week, I can’t imagine not having it available.

That said, Google’s Gemini integration with Google Workplace apps is useful right now, and seems to be getting better. For some strange reason Google does not have Gemini integration with Google Calendar and asking the GMail integration what is on my schedule is only accurate if information is in emails.

I don’t intend to dump on Google, I liked working there and I use their paid for products like GCP, YouTube Plus, etc., but I don’t use their search all that often. I am paying for their $20/month LLM+Google One bundle, and I hope that evolves into a paid for high quality, no ad service.

Source?

Anecdotally speaking I use google search much less frequently and instead opt for GPT4. This is also what a number of my colleagues are doing as well.

I often use ChatGPT4 for technical info. It's easier then scrolling through pages whet it works. But.. the accuracy is inconsistent, to put it mildly. Sometimes it gets stuck on wrong idea.

Interesting how far LLMs can get? Looks like we are close to scale-up limit. It's technically difficult to get bigger models. The way to go probably is to add assisting sub-modules. Examples would be web search, have it already. Database of facts, similar to search. Compilers, image analyzers, etc. With this approach LLM is only responsible for generic decisions and doesn't need to be that big. No need to memorize all data. Even logic can be partially outsourced to sub-module.

I expect a 5x improvement before EOY, I think GPT5 will come out.

my own analysis

Only if it does nothing. In fact Google is one of the major players in LLM field. The winner is hard to predict, chip makers likely ;) Everybody jumped on bandwagon, Amazon is jumping...

Google’s play is not really in AI imo, it’s in the the fact that their custom silicon allows them to run models cheaply.

Models are pretty much fungible at this point if you’re not trying to do any LoRAs or fine tunes.

There's still no other model on par with GPT-4. Not even close.

Many disagree. “Not even close” is a strong position to take on this.

It takes less than an hour of conversation with either, giving them a few tasks requiring logical reasoning, to arrive at that conclusion. If that is a strong position, it's only because so many people seem to be buying the common scoreboards wholesale.

That’s very subjective and case dependent. I use local models most often myself with great utility and advocate for giving my companies the choice of using either local models or commercial services/APIs (ChatGPT, GPT-4 API, some Llama derivative, etc.) based on preference. I do not personally find there to be a large gap between the capabilities of commercial models and the fine-tuned 70b or Mixtral models. On the whole, individuals in my companies are mixed in their opinions enough for there to not be any clear consensus on which model/API is best objectively — seems highly preference and task based. This is anecdotal (though the population size is not small), but I think qualitative anec-data is the best we have to judge comparatively for now.

I agree scoreboards are not a highly accurate ranking of model capabilities for a variety of reasons.

If you're using them mostly for stuff like data extraction (which seems to be the vast majority of productive use so far), there are many models that are "good enough" and where GPT-4 will not demonstrate meaningful improvements.

It's complicated tasks requiring step by step logical reasoning where GPT-4 is clearly still very much in a league of its own.