Today, Google is the king of search. But is it about to be dethroned?
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The search giant seems to face a new competitor every day. ChatGPT launched on November 30, with Perplexity and Allsearch coming shortly thereafter.
The “page of links” is starting to look antiquated.
Meanwhile, with nearly 200,000 employees, Google has released nothing in response. But new reports indicate Google may finally release a competitor this spring:
In addition to an ethical AI chatbot such as LaMDA, Google is now planning to reveal 20 more AI-based products at its I/O conference scheduled for May 2023. ChatGPT has sparked worry about the use and viability of conventional search engines, as the chatbot aims to provide answers to searches instead of just giving relevant links to users.
Taking over 5 months to respond to a mortal threat to your business is unacceptable. Google should’ve worked day and night to produce a ChatGPT competitor within 90 days.
So what’s the holdup?
Google has shown wariness in revealing AI products and services, especially with the raging debate on the ethics of using AI, with the potential for bolstering biases present in training data. All current AI offerings by Google are heavily restricted in terms of what they can be used for.
Large companies are obsessed with risk. Meanwhile, startups have to release something or they’re dead in the water.
By the time Google does release a competitor, it may already be outdated. OpenAI’s GPT-4 may come out in the first half of this year.
I don’t know what GPT-4 will be capable of. But seeing the massive improvement between GPT-3 and ChatGPT, I expect it to be very impressive.
How fast you launch and iterate is especially important in AI because AI tools can improve at incredible speed. From a recent column by economist Tyler Cowen:
ChatGPT, the model released late last year, received a grade of D on an undergraduate labor economics exam given by my colleague Bryan Caplan. Anthropic, a new LLM available in beta form and expected to be released this year, passed our graduate-level law and economics exam with nice, clear answers.
If that wasn’t impressive enough, ChatGPT and another chatbot just passed the United States Medical Licensing Examination. I certainly couldn’t do that!
Maybe Google will release a ChatGPT killer and blow us all away. But I expect to see it fall further and further behind, mired in complacency and risk aversion.
What do you think the future holds for Google? Leave a comment at the bottom and let me know!
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