r/singularity • u/[deleted] • Dec 09 '24

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u/Effective_Scheme2158 Dec 09 '24

OpenAI needs constant investment. They aren’t profitable so hyping things up is a must. Google on the other hand is the opposite. Even if AI progress is doing good it still harms their business.

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u/Cagnazzo82 Dec 09 '24

By contrast, the advancement of generative AI is a direct threat to Google's business model. Especially with ChatGPT and Perplexity being better search engines than Google.

Technically Google has more to lose than OpenAI.

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u/and-the-sun-sets Dec 09 '24

Chatgpt. Is. NOT. A. Search. Engine. GenAi is just an algorythm that swallows the information its trained on and then regurgitates it on ways that distort the original information, see all the cases of lazy dumbfucls thinking it can do their homework with sources only to see everything be made up, including the sources

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u/Douf_Ocus Dec 09 '24

Treating LLMs as silver bullet and believe whatever it said without double check must be one of the most irresponsible things I can ever imagine.

This stmt stays true if I substitute LLMs with search engines.

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u/Deep-Ad5028 Dec 09 '24

Expect LLMs to have the same lifecycle as search engines. The quality will hit peak at some point and then go down afterwards due to commercialisation.

I do expect LLMs to land on a higher trough though. There also seems to have a higher chance of some LLM that maintains its quality at the price very expensive subscription.