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I suspect that as much as we hype ChatGPT here on HN, its effect on Google’s actual revenue is effectively zero. It could affect their stock price due to informed speculators, but their search revenue is another story. I assume it’s declining anyway but I doubt ChatGPT has a noticeable impact on it yet.

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Normally I would agree with this take. It's all been so fast, after all. I don't know, though... So many of my non-techie clients have asked me about, or have started using beforehand, ChatGPT over just the past month alone.

I've never seen a phase change in user behavior like this before, and it strikes me that it may have had a material impact already.

Hmm.. I couldn't manage to convince my wife to try out ChatGPT a few months ago, but last week she heard about it on the Japanese news and wanted to give it a go

I guess that means it managed to get to her the long way around human society, since Japanese evening TV news is pretty much at the rear end of any cultural developments..

well we've been there before, a wave of massive, fever pitch hype around things like Siri when it came out, then people calm down and realize that it's useful for some situations, but not nearly a shift in the history of the Earth it may have seemed at first.

GPT-3.5 is not good enough to replace Google. However GPT-4 is but it's not widely available.

I thought it powers Bing Chat.

Not everyone has access to that and the last time I checked, it was heavily limited and not allowed to do things like code.

Definitely allows code now.

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