> The only thing they didn't do is turn Google Search into a chatbot,
No, they turned google search into what it is now.
For me, trying google bard was an instant reminder of the change in behavior in google search from 15 years ago to today.
We used to have a search that you could give obscure flags to Linux commands and find their documentation or source code. Today we have a google search that often only tell you about how some kardashian or recent political drama is a sounds-alike with the technical term that you were searching for.
GPT4 has some of the same "excessively smart" failure modes, but it (and GPT3.5 for that matter) is so much more useful than bard (which hits the user with "I can't do that dave" 100x more often than chatgpt's already excessive behavior) that they're a useful addition to the toolbox. Too bad the toolbox hardly includes plain search anymore.
No, they turned google search into what it is now.
For me, trying google bard was an instant reminder of the change in behavior in google search from 15 years ago to today.
We used to have a search that you could give obscure flags to Linux commands and find their documentation or source code. Today we have a google search that often only tell you about how some kardashian or recent political drama is a sounds-alike with the technical term that you were searching for.
GPT4 has some of the same "excessively smart" failure modes, but it (and GPT3.5 for that matter) is so much more useful than bard (which hits the user with "I can't do that dave" 100x more often than chatgpt's already excessive behavior) that they're a useful addition to the toolbox. Too bad the toolbox hardly includes plain search anymore.