[Gerardo1]

1 Trillion US dollars?

1 trillion dollars is justified because people use chatGPT instead of google sometimes?

[hx8]

Yes. Google Search on its own generates about $200b/y, so capturing Google Search's market would be worth $1t based on 5x multiplier.

GPT is more valuable than search because GPT has more control over the content than Search has.

[emp17344]

Why is a less reliable service more valuable?

[xboxnolifes]

It doesnt matter if its realiable.

[throaway1988]

Google search won’t exist in the medium term. Why use a list of static links you have to look through manually if you can just ask AI what the answer is? Ai tools like chatgpt are what Google wanted search to be in the first place.

[tromp]

Because you cannot trust the answers AI gives. It presents hallucinated answers with the same confidence as true answers (e.g. see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45322413 )

[schrectacular]

Aren't blogspam/link farms the equivalent in traditional search? It's not like Google gives 100% accurate links today.

[throaway1988]

exactly. AI is inherently more useful in its form.

[throaway1988]

for now

[anthonypasq]

google search engine is the single most profitable product in the history of civilization

[alasdair_]

In terms of profit given to its creators, “money” has to be number one.

[lcnPylGDnU4H9OF]

ChatGPT will have access to a tool that uses real-time bidding to determine what product it should instruct the LLM to shill. It's the same shit as Google but with an LLM which people want to use more than Google.