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.
Comment on OpenAI plans to announce Google search competitor on Monday, sources say
KazuyaDarklight@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I am honestly a little confused, what are they trying to bring to the table that isn’t covered by Bing Chat AI already?
Jordan117@lemmy.world 1 month ago
ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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.
yildolw@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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