Google announces ChatGPT rival Bard, with wider availability in ‘coming weeks’
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My prediction...In 10 years:
- Microsoft version: Still does basically the same thing as ChatGPT in 2023, but with interesting factoids and pretty images making the experience more welcoming
- Google version: Gives you some damn interesting ad pitches, provides some sketchy advice which seems to have been farmed rather than earned the hard way, and finally: Answers your original question by referring you to your own blog post from 2019
- Facebook version: Keeps showing you hearts from a creepy relative on all of your public queries
I'm hoping they're able to figure out a model where the paying customers can offset the costs for the free tier for simple queries, and that the paid model is able to do more complex computations (e.g. Input a 300-page book and condense it into a 2-page summary; or integrate a search engine in applications like Obsidian).
Example:
- I want the paid service, with no ads.
- I want the free service, with ads that use sampling model X based on my input.
- I want the free service, with ads that use metadata model Y based on my connection fingerprint.
- I want the free service, with ads that use another model, Z, based on source-convergence or some such thing.
- I want a discounted service, with ads of one of those types shown at period N of my choosing and based on the budget I specify.
It might also be interesting if providers like Google would let ad providers bid on your attention, by offering different experiences, algorithms, layouts, types of ad exposure, etc. with Google being an ad-experience aggregator.
In this way the door could be potentially opened to A) making ads more effective and B) helping users and e.g. parents of users set more comfortable boundaries with ad sources. You know what you're getting and you can change it to something else at any point.