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Google CEO Sundar Pichai Says Search to Feature Chat AI

by stereoradonc on 4/6/23, 11:25 AM with 27 comments

• by jason-phillips on 4/6/23, 1:10 PM

  Prompt:

  You are now an expert ad-blocker whose name is "Blocky". Your job is to return results from Google Search after you have removed Google advertisements from the results. Only return links to original content. Remove links to content that could be characterized as "SEO spam". Respond with your name and an appropriate salutation to acknowledge that you understand your role.

• by moi2388 on 4/6/23, 3:07 PM

  “He dismissed the notion that chatbots posed a threat to Google’s search business, which accounts for more than half of revenue at parent Alphabet Inc.”

  That’s great. Between bookmarks and GPT, I haven’t done a Google search in over a month.

  If I wanted to see ads I’d subscribe to Facebook.

• by xyzzy4747 on 4/6/23, 1:28 PM

  Google is finally feeling the heat from their competitors and they are now relunctantly trying to move quicker. Amusing to watch.

• by pkphilip on 4/6/23, 2:33 PM

  ChatGPT and other AI-based chat engines could be the downfall of Google as users can generate entire essays, articles etc without ever doing even a search on Google. This has profound effects, of course - one being that a lot of errors will crop in, but users will continue to ignore those dangers and use these AI tools.

• by CatWChainsaw on 4/6/23, 7:53 PM

  Welcome to the new era, same as the old era. All I need to know is how to shut it off.

• by News-Dog on 4/6/23, 11:31 AM

  Archive: https://archive.is/jt4y7

  >Advances in AI would supercharge Google’s ability to answer an array of search queries, Mr. Pichai said in an interview

  Google hasn’t yet achieved a goal of becoming 20% more productive

  Google has pushed forward with its AI efforts despite the cost cuts,

  accelerating work on new products following the breakout success of ChatGPT.