When asked if she tried it, she not only didn't even realize that it was accessible to her, but didn't even bother to register to actually try it.
If Microsoft is smart about it, they call it "Microsoft Search with ChatGPT", do their "we'll place you a shortcut on your desktop without asking"-thing with an icon named "ChatGPT" which launches Edge even if Chrome or FFX is the default, and shows the "Microsoft Search with ChatGPT" page with an auto-submitted question like "If animals could talk, which species do you think would be the funniest to have a conversation with and why?".
Let them ask a few questions and finally ask them if they want to set Edge as their new default browser.
Another interesting thing is that she calls Google's recommendation engine "Adam". It's "Adam" who selects the photos which get shown in "this day a year ago" and other automatically generated collections. "Adam" is what makes Google smart for her, the restless data collector and invader of privacy.
it's not a niche topic in the slightest little bit. if the defacto location for using chatGPT becomes bing.com (or whatever rebranding) that's huge.
Bringing ChatGPT to Bing would be similar to what GitHub did for MS’ DevRel.
I'm screaming internally at this.
I hadn't even thought of that, but now you say it, it's very plausible. It writes convincingly, avoids controversy, and with extensive but imperfect knowledge in far more domains than any real human, of course people will use it for dating.
Pretty sure every student heard of it and many of them tried it.
Consumers don't care what it's called, but they surely will use it. Especially if it's built into a familiar search engine.
If they pull it off, Sundar's Bard blog post would be a huge egg-on-face moment for Google, even bigger than when DeepMind said it would make a Go announcement soon and Zuck tried to steal its thunder. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jan/28/go-playin...
Google doesn't have any competition outside the US and the EU.