You know Google has been doing this for years now?
> However, there's an entire collection of things that can be answered directly by ChatGPT. For example "how many mins should I hard boil an egg" or "Can I take NyQuil when I'm stoned" or anything else where you really just want a single sentence answer.
Google has been doing this for years via search cards, which are AI generated summaries of website information.
Of course.
What’s changed is that before now, they were the only ones who could do it, vs now, everyone can do it. So this technology only got deployed where someone could get a promo out of it whereas now, every to-do list app, dating app, and even a reasonably sophisticated nigerian prince can find a place to deploy it.
Think of what gcc did to software tool chains, Apache to servers, Linux to operating systems and to a lesser degree, blockchains to distributed databases.
> Google has been doing this for years via search cards, which are AI generated summaries of website information.
Yes. But now, someone else can do it too. And if that someone else does a good job, Google just lost the opportunity to show advertisements to all of those “searches”.
Doesn’t mean that anyone is about to beat Google in terms of sheer talent and experience with this stuff. But a very hungry and determined community of entrepreneurs just got hands on something that’s about as good as Google’s secret sauce and they’re about to run wild.