[Patrol8394]

What’s OpenAI long term strategic advantage? Google, has already shown they have something like ChatGPT. They just need a new CEO and to feel enough pressure to make it a company priority. I think it is just a matter of time and all other big players will catch up.

The big problem for Google is not the tech per se, but to figure out how to make money out of it, without destroying their ads cash cow.

[Me1000]

> Something like ChatGPT Chatbots are not new, they've been around forever, so there's plenty of prior art for things like ChatGPT. What sets ChatGPT apart is the quality. And in that respect, Bard is a long ways away.

>They just need a new CEO and to feel enough pressure to make it a company priority.

Sundar made machine learning a company priority years ago. Employees were encouraged to take machine learning courses, and much in the same way Google made everything "mobile first" in the early 2010s, I believe I remember hearing about them making everything "ML first" in the early late 2010s.

You can see their announcements at IO around their assistant which they presented as having the ability to call physical businesses, have a conversation with the person on the other ends, and book you an appointment/reservation.

And as recently as ChatGPT3, Sundar declared a "code red" to respond to it.

Google has been investing in this tech for a long time and it's been looking for ways to create products with it too. It's just that OpenAI leapfrogged them. I'm not saying they won't catch up, but they weren't caught flatfooted here.

[Patrol8394]

Still, I don’t see OpenAI having a strategic advantage.

Until today, Google still has a defacto monopoly on search. Their secret sauce made them leader in the space and so far no other company has been able to come up with something better.

ChatGPT does not have any special secret sauce, Google can just build something better. So if I have to bet, long term, I will still bet on Google. That said, it is also not obvious that leadership at Google will be capable of delivering. That’s all different story.