Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella characterizes the arrival of AI as a new paradigm, a technical turn that has the same significance as the invention of graphical user interfaces or the smartphone, but whether it will kill the internet in the future is a question we can't answer.
Google and Microsoft pledged that this week that web searches will change. Both companies appear committed to using AI to scrape the web, distill what it finds, and generate direct answers to users' questions, similar to ChatGPT. Yes, Microsoft did it in a louder voice while jumping up and down and shouting, "Look at me, look at me," but both companies did it in a more subdued manner.
Microsoft refers to its initiatives as "the new Bing" and has integrated relevant features into its Edge browser. Project Bard is Google's, and although it's not quite ready to sing yet, a launch is scheduled for the "coming weeks." Of course, OpenAI's ChatGPT, which took the internet by storm last year and demonstrated...