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[mt.wellington]

Gmail creator says ChatGPT will destroy Google's business in two years​

Will it? Only time will tell.
Ameya Paleja
Created: Jan 30, 2023 06:21 AM EST

The popularity of ChatGPT, the online chatbot built by OpenAI, has brought many to question the survival of search engines such as Google. Paul Buchheit, the creator of Gmail, has also dropped his opinion on the matter, and he thinks that Google's business will last a maximum of two years, he tweeted.

Launched in November last year, ChatGPT has become the favorite destination to ask questions among millions of users. Instead of delivering a response to a search result that runs into tens of pages, ChatGPT answers the questions in a conversational style, making it easier for the user to ask follow-up questions, too.

Many have wondered if this could draw the curtains on Google's main product, the search engine, much like how Google closed shop for Yellow Pages years ago. Interesting Engineering had previously reported that the instant success of ChatGPT sent Google top executives into a huddle, and the company is now focusing on its artificial intelligence (A.I.) products.

Is the end near for Google?​

The company has built its business largely around its most successful product; the search engine could soon face a crisis. As Paul Buchheit elaborated in his tweet, technology like A.I. can eliminate the need for search engine result pages, which is where Google makes most of its money.



Google charges advertisers a fee for displaying their products and services right next to the search results, increasing the likelihood of the provider being found. In 2021, the company raked in over $250 billion in revenue, its best-ever income in its nearly 25-year-old existence.

Gmail creator says ChatGPT-like AI will destroy Google's business in two years

Although ChatGPT is a revolutionary product, Google is also aware of threats from A.I. to its own business and could be working to protect its revenues.

interestingengineering.com

 

[mt.wellington]

Better look at the different search results...

 

[RizNz]

Better look at the different search results...

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Way to make me feel really dumb! 😂

 

[Evil_Mush]

Ugh, seeing references to differential equations gives me PTSD 😅 Last year I was planning on getting back to finish the last four papers of a maths degree I bombed out of 20 years ago, but buying an e-version of one of the textbooks and reading the first two pages quickly had regressing to my "I can't do this I am so dumb" state of mind from the first time around

Maybe I can join the revolution and get the AI to solve everything for me after all...

 

[Blackdot]

Ugh, seeing references to differential equations gives me PTSD 😅 Last year I was planning on getting back to finish the last four papers of a maths degree I bombed out of 20 years ago, but buying an e-version of one of the textbooks and reading the first two pages quickly had regressing to my "I can't do this I am so dumb" state of mind from the first time around

Maybe I can join the revolution and get the AI to solve everything for me after all...

I would highly recommend checking out 3Blue1Brown on youtube, he explains complex maths concepts better (and in a more interesting way) than anyone else I have seen (including my time at university). Here is a playlist of his videos on differential equations.

 

[Inruin]

It actually already started several years ago where they got a computer to break down every number 1 song for the past so many years and they came up with an algorithm that some music company was said to already be utilising. You're right though. When you apply this level of AI to it its probably going to be a money printing exercise. Another ethical dilemma.

Interestingly I just saw a post by Armegeddon Expo and they are banning art made by AI. Another interesting ethical debate...

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does AI get added to the LBGTQ.... alphabet now too?

 

[Miket12]

I was talking to a former work colleague yesterday who is now a lecturer at Unitec. He suspected that some of his students were cheating by using a bot in a building tech class he was running to write their reports so he decided to see if he could trap any of them.

He asked them to do an assignment on the pros and cons of using a certain building product on the outside of the building.... all but one person got A's for their one line answers to the assignment while one student got an F for his immaculately prepared paper which included CAD details for how the product would be used.

The problem for the student, was when he used a Bot, it would have told him that the product was unsuitable but instead he changed part of the wording by subsituting the word "fibrous " with "concrete". Then in Word, he changed the word "concrete" back to "fibrous" and that formed the bulk of his assignment. He altered the CAD details to include the word "fibrous".

So why did he get an F? Because the assignment asked for "the pros and cons of using fibrous plaster as an exterior cladding". All but this one student realised there weren't any "pros" as fibrous plaster can only be used inside as it turns to paper mache when it gets wet.

 

[James W]

So why did he get an F? Because the assignment asked for "the pros and cons of using fibrous plaster as an exterior cladding". All but this one student realised there weren't any "pros" as fibrous plaster can only be used inside as it turns to paper mache when it gets wet

And that's one of the negatives to Chat GPT, it's convincing wrong on alot of stuff. I've mentioned before I use it daily to structure coding as that can be a time sink. Ask it to write the actual code from scratch and it'll almost always cock it up.

This won't be an issue in the future. But I come at it from the angle of it being a tool.

From a creative aspect (my knowledge is in game design so I use both programming and creative elements), I get the whole 'AI bad because make art easy' and 'AI turk err jerrbs' arguments. I counter with two points.

1) All art is derivative. We just label it 'inspiration'. What is almost impossible to replicate is chaos and random thought. Things like beer and penicillin were discovered entirely by mistake. It was humanity that deemed them beneficial.

2) People may lose their jobs, but new ones will pop up in their place and these jobs will require higher knowledge to do them.

This is, of course, only my humble opinion.

Edited: Spelling and Grammar.

 

[Mr Frank White]

And that's one of the negatives to Chat GPT, it's convincing wrong on alot of stuff. I've mentioned before I use it daily to structure coding as that can be a time sink. Ask it to write the actual code from scratch and it'll almost always cock it up.

This won't be an issue in the future. But I come at it from the angle of it being a tool.

From a creative aspect (my knowledge is in game design so had both programming and creative elements), I get the whole 'AI bad because make art easy' and 'AI turk err jerrbs' arguments. I counter with two points.

1) All art is derivative. We just label it 'inspiration'. What is almost impossible to replicate is chaos and random thought. Things like beer and penecillan were discovered entirely by mistake. It was humanity that deemed them beneficial.

2) People may lose their jobs, but new ones will pop up in their place and these jobs will require higher knowledge to do them.

This is, of course, only my humble opinion.

Thats ChatGPT though. GPT4, the paid access of OpenAI is already spitting out flawless code. The scary thing is when combined with other models.

GPT4 can spit out flawless prompts to Midjourney to create AI images. It can spit out formatting code to rewrite, table, and publish websites based off an image.

 

[James W]

Thats ChatGPT though. GPT4, the paid access of OpenAI is already spitting out flawless code. The scary thing is when combined with other models.

Admittidly, I haven't had a play with GPT4, so you got me there.

My point still stands that for people in my field who focus on concepts over execution, it's a great tool.

 

[Mr Frank White]

Admittidly, I haven't had a play with GPT4, so you got me there.

My point still stands that for people in my field who focus on concepts over execution, it's a great tool.

Yeah it useful in its areas. Im building an ecommerce website and so having ChatGPT write the copy and optimize is saving me hours of labour.

 

[James W]

Yeah it useful in its areas. Im building an ecommerce website and so having ChatGPT write the copy and optimize is saving me hours of labour.

Nice. You've probably thought of it, but chat GTP was excellent for SEO strategies.