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by cm2012 639 days ago
As an ad professional - this is a thoughtful article.

I think paid social ads will be less affected by AI than search ads. After all, AI is unlikely to replace human social interactions. That's a good thing. Paid social ads have a much higher incrementality compared to search.

Search ads in comparison are often just the "Google tax".

In my personal life, I've replaced 80% of my previous searches with quick ChatGPT 4 prompts. It gives better answers, faster.

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> It gives better answers, faster.

It really depends. As a programmer, sometimes after asking a question, it takes so long to generate an answer that I can look up the answer in the docs before it’s done. Sometimes I need to give it a clarifying query and wait _again_ for it to generate an answer.

A solid 30% of the time it’s wrong about the details of a library. For example, it’s not aware of the latest (from earlier this year) version of the Bevy game engine.