We might find ourselves residing on a planet without Google Search in a matter of years.
That may come off as theatrical. After all, you most likely arrived at this page using Google Search, which served as your starting point for a brief voyage over the internet. You might have been looking for “ChatGPT” or “OpenAI” or perhaps just “Google” in an attempt to trick Google. (Don’t bother, it just offers you a lot of Google.) You may have been offered this article by your smartphone because you’ve been reading about AI on CNET recently.
Whatever the reason, the likelihood is that Google Search had a significant role in your current location.
The World Wide Web, as it was once known, has been greeted by Google’s empty search bar for more than two decades. Over the course of its 20-year reign, competitors have surfaced, but none have come close to unseating the search king. Regular and sincere predictions of its impending demise have been made, yet the majority of candidates haven’t even reached the castle.
Then something changed in November, when OpenAI’s ChatGPT started algorithmically producing waves. A generative AI called ChatGPT can produce responses to virtually any query you ask it that sound human-like. Everybody who has asked it to create code, essay responses, poetry, or prose has been amazed by its proficiency. It’s so good that almost every IT expert, numerous journalists, and specialized Substack writers started asking if ChatGPT would replace Google.
It wasn’t just experts and writers, either. >>> Read More
https://www.cnet.com/science/features/a-world-without-google-search/