I despise all the corporate tech speak around these topics. Bing is still a shit search engine no matter which way you cut it. ChatGPT is useful if you know what you are doing and have experience in the field you're asking the questions in. Google is still enslaved by its ad revenue from Search so they will not cut its head off just like that.
Is it really so hard to talk about these things as they are?
but all the non-Google companies will surely forego the ad revenue out of goodness of their hearts? Ads (and even some form of SEO and spamming) are here to stay, they weren't invented by Google.
Oh, the others will too. I was kind of being facetious about Google succeeding with that strategy. I have no idea what the outcome will be, but I'm kind of concerned about introducing bias or commercial spam in to these products.
Yes. I know my comment is snarky, that was intentional.
Google's results have gotten so bad these days that at least a couple times a day when I'm coding I try the same queries about an error message or something on both sites out of desperation. Even then I usually find Bing to be even worse. Then I'll try the old "site:reddit.com" trick on google and finally get something useful half the time.
I've also recently used GPT to help with an issue I was dealing with. I was trying to change the default location of where postgresql keeps its data directly. GPT gave a very convincing solution, except that after another few hours of tinkering and searching turns out to be completely wrong.
sorry, but you may just be using it wrong. i've been doing very heavy green field systems infrastructure for my startup and gpt-4 is utterly indispensable for my postgres set up. huge time saver, and i was dealing with the exact issue of default data directory.
what you may not be doing is reading the explanation or pasting in your error messages. very rarely does it make an error that isn't trivial to overcome and in far less time than a hunt through "10 blue links".
OpenAI waiting lists for features and API access and message limits are separating classes of people of how productive they can be in life.
As for me I have a comfortable life but for some classes of people, like content creators or even programmers being on the waiting list vs having access to some features can be the difference between having a job or not and having a promotion or not.
Is it really so hard to talk about these things as they are?