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Ask HN: Why is Google not doing anything about ChatGPT?

3 pointsby thyroxabout 2 years ago
I&#x27;m just wondering why is Google taking so long so introduce a competitor to chatgpt when almost every other search engine from you.com to ddg has this feature now? (Some for months afaik)<p>Is it the good old wait and watch strategy or Google just doesn&#x27;t have it good enough?<p>Chatgpt is eating more and more Google&#x27;s lunch and Gpt 4 is landing in a few weeks. Microsoft seems to be on fire yet the big G isn&#x27;t doing anything.. what gives?

4 comments

PaulHouleabout 2 years ago
What I heard was they had one two years ago and decided to sit on it.<p>Remember that ChatGPT&#x27;s core competence is <i>bullshitting</i>; it&#x27;s a huge mistake to say that it &quot;hallucinates&quot; when it gets wrong answers because it does the exact same thing when it is right and when it is wrong. It&#x27;s just right sometimes and other times it is wrong. It&#x27;s unlike human perception where hallucination really is a disease process.<p>Microsoft jumped in with both feet because the core of their market has always been products that make people feel like they&#x27;re productive when they are screwing up... Like Excel.
frontman1988about 2 years ago
Bard is coming. Although I doubt it will be as effective as GPT but they can try competing on price by launching it for free.
wg0about 2 years ago
Because there&#x27;s nothing to do. Google probably already had something similar internally. Main problem is accuracy.<p>Whatever ChatGPT generates needs to be double checked anyway. If you&#x27;re relying directly on ChatGPT&#x27;s output than you&#x27;re probably making a mistake or might make one later.
minimaxirabout 2 years ago
Because corporate bureaucracy.