This is the same situation Kodak found themselves in years ago. Do you accept the business landscape has changed and accept a significantly smaller role in the market, or do you hope that somehow the alternative becomes unpalatable and you can keep your market position.
It’s the inventors dilemma: do they embrace new products outside of their historical core cash cow, or do they stick with the cash cow? Search and ads are where the history is, but empowering a million different ai powered products via an api is the future. While empowering ai products for third parties is a boon for the cloud business, running those api’s has a business model akin to “trading time for money” rather than directly getting a cut of revenue.
It seems less sexy to be a commodity provider of AI rather than the one that makes the products and getting a direct share of revenue rather than a share of cost. But I have heard that during the gold rush it was better to be a tool and infrastructure seller than to be a prospector.
The business landscape has not changed yet, it's still early stages and there are no competitors utilizing the tech to displace Google. However, one can now clearly see the threat and what might transpire in the next few years.
That's impossible. They must have asked this survey at a Silicon Valley networking event on AI or something. Rough search shows there are 63,644,000 "professional workers" in the US so this survey is saying 17,183,880 Americans are using ChatGPT at work. How can anyone seriously believe that stat?
what planet do you live on? I work in midtown manhattan, I bet if I walked down the street, 75% wouldn't even know what chatGPT is, let alone that the other 25% actually use it.
> 27% of professionals use chatGPT for work already.[0]
> found that 27 percent of professionals have used the program to help them with work-related tasks.
«Have used», as free test, at least once. Maybe twice. Tomorrow ? Until real value, habits and serious problems are established, my bracket of day to day for professional use is still opened between 26% - 1%.
Yeah, I personally find ChatGPT to be easily 1 to 2 orders of magnitude better than Copilot, specifically for generating code or transmuting code from one language into another language. Really powerful.
I don’t know the glue, but ChatGPT is dramatically better at understanding context and goals, and it has that whole refinement layer for iterating on responses.
There are also things chatgpt can’t/won’t do that GPT-3 will, like writing music.
But Google is investing in the research. They could become Kodak if they were distanced but it's not the case at this point. They just refuse to be the leader they could be for the moment.
Kodak had some of the most advanced and extensive photo research of anyone. They had early digital cameras but couldn’t let go of the film processing revenue (so they came up with the “advantix” failure).
Kodak had so much research that they pretty much survived on licensing their patent portfolio.
Sometimes I wonder, if I knew that the series would not be finished would I have started it, and would reading something else have been a better use of my time. I usually come to the conclusion that despite GRRM's world being incomplete, it's still far better than most of the work in the fantasy genre.
A programmer walks into a bar and orders 1.00000000001000000...897175 root beers. The bartender says, "I'll have to charge you extra; that's a root beer float". And the programmer says, "In that case, make it a double".
