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• @carnage4life Dare Obasanjo on x

  Google employees explain why we haven't seen ChatGPT like functionality in their products; the cost to serve an AI result is 10x to 100x as high as a regular web search today plus they're too slow relative to how quick search results must be returned. https://twitter.com/...

• @emollick Ethan Mollick on x

  These two paragraphs are a business strategy case. Google has a massive business model built on assumptions about how search works. It could win the AI battle, but at the cost of its business. (👀 also, Google's internal AI is much better than ChatGPT!) https://bigtechnology.subst…

• @levie Aaron Levie on x

  ChatGPT will likely play out exactly as innovator's dilemma suggests. To an expert in any given field, it has worse answers. But most people don't have access to experts for everything, so it actually is a productivity boost to everyone else.

• @levie Aaron Levie on x

  If Amazon launched Alexa on the web and mobile, powered by ChatGPT, it could be game over.

• @paulfabretti Paul Fabretti on x

  Fascinating short piece about compute power requirements and high-requirements services. https://twitter.com/...

• @unknownmetric Ada Powers on x

  I don't actually care about AI in search results, I just want to slowly fall in love with the virtual representative of a multinational corporation that lives in a wireless speaker as a form of dystopic performance art https://twitter.com/...

• @duderichy Rich on x

  ChatGPT is also not even close to accurate (yet anyways) https://twitter.com/...

• @thevunderkind @thevunderkind on x

  I don't think this is why we haven't seen it on Google. It feels like a post-hoc rationalization. https://twitter.com/...

• @dennishxu Dennis Xu on x

  This is going to appear on some business school case study some day (in the not so distant future) about disruption. https://twitter.com/...

• @aparanjape Amit Paranjape on x

  Interesting... maybe there is space for both? Quick, free search (current Google search) Paid (subscription model?), slow search (ChatGPT like) https://twitter.com/...

• @trungtphan Trung Phan on x

  Real interesting notes on why Google hasn't rolled out its latest AI chat tools https://twitter.com/...

• @artemr Artem Russakovskii on x

  Interesting insight into ChatGPT-level AI search results in Google. https://twitter.com/...

• @kevin_indig @kevin_indig on x

  we don't speak about the cost of large language models enough, yet. Different beast when going mass market. https://twitter.com/...

• @rafat @rafat on x

  Well worth a read and lot more in depth reporting and writing needed on this. Good one by ⁦@Kantrowitz⁩. https://open.substack.com/...

• @statesdj David States MD PhD on x

  Does Google have a Kodak problem? Kodak invented digital photography and patented the first portable digital camera, but they were wedded to the film cash cow. Is Google sitting on AI because it doesn't want to kill the ad business cash cow? https://twitter.com/...

• @zacharygraves Zach Graves on x

  “The company makes money when people click ads next to search results, and it's awkward to fit ads into conversational replies. Imagine receiving a response and then immediately getting pitched to go somewhere else — it feels slimy, and unhelpful” https://twitter.com/...

• @kantrowitz Alex Kantrowitz on x

  How did Google get beat by OpenAI on ChatGPT? It's long promised that the future of search will be conversational. I spoke with some people who've worked inside the company. It wasn't a blind spot. https://bigtechnology.substack.com/ ... via @BigTechnology