[michaelt]

> Google is first and foremost a search engine - it searches the web for answers

Sure, but Google tries to provide instant answers - i.e. questionably accurate machine-generated extracts of content they've borrowed from other sites - so you could argue they've fallen behind the cutting edge for questionably-accurate machine-generated extracts of stuff found on the internet.

[codeviking]

But falling behind is very different than "being done." I think the original tweet is very much an exaggeration, and agree with the point made here.

Google is no where close to "being done." Sure, their answers aren't perfect. But they've managed to deploy them at scale. They're probably available globally. They're fast. And they probably see way more eyeballs than OpenAI's system.

It's going to take a long time for folks to deploy advanced techniques like this at the scale required for something like Google. And if anyone has the resources to do this, it's Google. So I suspect Google will just learn from these examples and integrate them into their existing offering, which will probably eclipse any chance at disruption -- both because of their existing market share and because of the computational firepower they have to make this happen.