@astatide @emilymbender So what's the incentive? What are the companies getting out of replacing useful search with useless chat bots?

@Magess @astatide @emilymbender They're not. That lawyer was simply foolish, misunderstood the product. ChatGPT was never marketed as a search engine. It's a deeply financed research project that went looking for a product later and was grossly misunderstood by the largely uninformed.

Companies are working on making LLMs useful coupled properly with search. There, the bet is a more natural interface with search will win more customers because it's easier to use and understand.

@bradedwards @Magess @astatide @emilymbender it’s not an interface! It isn’t a stepping stone to some kind of general natural language interface! It’s just a bullshit engine!
And because it doesn’t encode any actual meaning, it can’t possibly be an interface or meaningful part of a search engine.