So remember this interview of Sam Altman and Lex Fridman? Within 2 hours of boring and monotone conversations, Sam explicitly mentioned that AI is so much bigger than search engines, and it so much more than these miserable search engines, he doesn't even care about search engines.
Well it seems Sam was bluffing and after he found out how much money google makes, he decided it could be a feasible future for his company 😉.
Another theory is that Bill Gates, is still sore after he lost the war between Google and Bing, so he tries pushing OpenAI to dig up the hatchet, and start a new war. Many have tried doing this before, but none succeeded. Let's see OpenAI's attempt.
Regardless of the cause, let's see what they will offer, and how is it different to their already existing product, which within the chat already searches stuff online.
Key differences are:
- You can now directly type a search query in specific box, and the intention will always be as clear as day - search things.
- The results won't be really limited to 1 or 2 results, but rather a more common approach, which returns a list of results.
- You will be able to continue the conversation, based on the returned results, and ask questions and summarizations of it.
The accent is on authors and creators, it is sad that the AI will give credit to the authors.
In my opinion, one of the most crucial things behind the search gpt is that it is going to fine tune your searches and add most of relevant context to maximize the output of your search, which is going to be a really really quality of life improvement.
Overall I think it has heaps of potential, but we need to understand how this is going to be used, and how will the ads going to be manipulated and imposed.
Let's see, as I'll gets hands-on it, I'll share my thoughts.
