Does it, though? I do wonder if we just have set up a false expectation of how search ought to work.
I want answers to problems I have, 20-30 seconds for a good quality answer will very, very often be vastly preferred over 200ms and results I'll have to frequently delve deeper into myself, and I am not adding any less than 30 seconds in most cases.
I'm happy to use a !bang to indicate what kind of response I want. I'm not the average user but people understand the difference between asking your roommate who's right there and asking a professional about something, so this doesn't seem like much of a stretch.
OpenAI is already far faster than Google. Sure, Google returns your search results very quickly, but it then takes me forever to sift through the results and tweak my search query until I _maybe_ find an answer to my question, and I'm finding more and more that no matter how long I take, Google can't give me the answer at all.
GPT-4 takes maybe 15-30 seconds to spit out a precise, detailed answer to exactly what I asked for, and it's usually the correct answer, or at least it's close enough. It would have to get a _lot_ slower to make me go back to Google.
It also needs to be profitable, obviously their free tier is a money sink but I think it's currently unclear whether even their paid tiers are net-positive.
Even if they provide a better service, if it's only feasible to run when subsidised by the AI hype-wave VC money firehose then it's not going to last.
This is about infra rollout. The thing for Google is they can’t just slap Bard on the home page because it would be flattened in 10 seconds unless they massively invest in GPU resource.
So what’s Google’s play here? Charge money to deliver ads to people?
A startup otoh can start small and grow as revenues are received.
I'm happy to use a !bang to indicate what kind of response I want. I'm not the average user but people understand the difference between asking your roommate who's right there and asking a professional about something, so this doesn't seem like much of a stretch.