[kwlug-disc] ChatGTP + Bing: we're entering a new paradigm and it's mind-blowing

[Khalid Baheyeldin]

On Thu, Feb 16, 2023 at 6:26 AM Ronald Barnes <ron at ronaldbarnes.ca> wrote:

> Khalid Baheyeldin wrote on 15/02/2023 11.53:
>
> > Those who are clamouring about AI's capabilities are non-specialists
> > (mainly tech and non-tech journalists, Youtubers, ...etc.)
>
> No, that's just wrong.
>
> Google, Microsoft, etc. are hardly non-specialists and they're all over
> this. Google had an emergency meeting, bringing in the retired founders,
> and put together a disastrous, hasty, ill-fated product demo in response.
>
> They're suitably scared right now.


I see this as FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out) more than anything else.

Microsoft is latching on to ChatGPT itself, whether by pouring money into it
or integrating it into Bing.

Google has a history of jumping onto things just because competitors do it.
And a certain degree of that is justified. What Google does is not go into
it
enough, keep changing it, and then eventually kills it.

Remember Google Plus?
Or the various chat products? The original one, then Hangouts, then killing
that and pushing Chat which had no video integration, and Google Meet
as a clone for Zoom post-pandemic? There is also Duo.

The history of Google's forays into various markets and products makes me
very skeptical if this will be a sustainable product.
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