Is this going to be the mule produced by breeding OpenAI with the Bing team?
I can hear it braying from way down the road, dropping steaming loads of marketing as it comes to stink up the place kicking children in their teeth, all while making billions from it in the process. Heee hawwww .
I am honestly a little confused, what are they trying to bring to the table that isn’t covered by Bing Chat AI already?
Having weird duplicate products is not unusual at Microsoft. It probably would have been better for everyone, including shareholders, if they’d been broken up or spun off divisions as they grew.
If they had spun off Windows and Office into independent companies, Windows would have made a competing office suite and Office would have made a competing OS
If it is just a repackaging of ChatGPT’s existing “search the web” function, I don’t know why they’d bother. It can at best summarize a page of search results for a very literal-minded query, and even then it’s often lobotomized by the fact that OpenAI has made it easy for a large number of top websites to opt out of having their pages accessible to their search crawler, which means you’re only getting a summary of the search result snippet and metadata. A competent user of Google search can run rings around it in terms of research, even with Google’s decline in quality. I guess it makes it faster to answer basic queries for recent information not in the training data, but that hardly seems worthy of a big event.
Just what I need, another useless search engine.
Correction: An even more useless search engine.
i really don’t want anything that further obfuscates the experience of me typing in a word and it showing me pages with that word. and i don’t know why i’d want to type a full ass sentence in natural english versus just keywords
They’ve probably got enough machine learning to take keywords and figure out intent. That’s essentially what Google does with autocomplete. They (Google) use n-grams. So I expect OpenAI already has this all figured out.
Source: am in SEO
What worries me is AI getting things wrong and perpetuating lies that are also made up via AI (maybe even the same AI). Also, how will their algorithm work? Do they fact check things they display? I hate Google, but at least they do have somewhat of a push to ensure authority and trust via their algos.
What would open AI offer that Google aren’t doing? I feel like they keep fixing something that wasn’t broken and now they can’t go back to the old good search engine.
You don’t type questions into search engines? I’ve been doing that for well over a decade and it helps find others asking the same thing.
I find that I have to do that now, because it seems the internet has been geared towards people that think you have to ask the computer a question instead of searching for key words like how it used to work.
I find it more difficult now because often the search results are what the search engine thinks I want, instead of what I actually asked for.
it seems the internet has been geared towards people that think you have to ask the computer a question instead of searching for key words like how it used to work.
I mean, this is what we see/read in sci-fi series and movies at least since the 60’s.
And I prefer it the other way.
So all the AI enshittification of Google results was just 4D chess all along!
Wym?
Open ai is “owned” by Microsoft so no, google are just shooting themselves in the foot with shitty search results
It’ll herd users to the new product. It’s like when reddit enshittified its mobile web page to move folks to its app. Both reddit; but they shot themselves in one foot to shift weight over to the other foot.
Are you saying Google is herding their users to the new product of their competitors? I honestly don’t understand what point you’re trying to make here.
I think the point they’re trying to make here is they don’t like reddit’s app
Well no… but also yes!
Hmm.
Interesting idea. I mean, if you are a corporate competitor, why not? Especially if you injected the static into the blood stream.
Sticking with duck duck go. Not seeing advertising, news or video recommendations based on a one time search in Google is bliss.
But duck duck go has ads… They are just as search results. My Pihole will actively block access to those links because they are promoted content. They also have a little “ad” tag alongside the post.
Begun, the AI wars have.
Info enshittification can mean only one thing: full scale invasion. Apparently
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Right to the point, good summary mate!
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Beautiful
The irony here is palpable
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Ok but this is hilarious lol
I thought it was a really good representation of the OpenAI search engine.
