Great post. I feel like even with all the huge numbers of users and their dominant / leading place in this new world of AI, OpenAI may be overreaching. My level of faith that they'll be great all the things is low right now.
We shall see right? At first I figured they would take the route of the early innovator that gets left behind but Altman is a force which is a key ingredient and the deals he is making …
Right. I do think search is ripe for the taking, lots of people seeing how dumb traditional web search is vs GenAI tools for search - as in search that actually answers a question or gets right at your topic. Maybe shopping too. I feel like Google's enshittification of search is being mirrored by Amazon doing the same for online shopping.
Tx Tom! After I wrote it, I was talking to R. She works for a biggish software company in the Valley and she had just left a meeting about their AI strategy. Where/how to add it for most impact, etc. Someone said why don’t we think about writing an integration with ChatGPT like I talked about — that blew everyone’s mind so they disbanded to take naps.
Great post. I feel like even with all the huge numbers of users and their dominant / leading place in this new world of AI, OpenAI may be overreaching. My level of faith that they'll be great all the things is low right now.
We shall see right? At first I figured they would take the route of the early innovator that gets left behind but Altman is a force which is a key ingredient and the deals he is making …
Right. I do think search is ripe for the taking, lots of people seeing how dumb traditional web search is vs GenAI tools for search - as in search that actually answers a question or gets right at your topic. Maybe shopping too. I feel like Google's enshittification of search is being mirrored by Amazon doing the same for online shopping.
YES! And it’s fun to have a new player. New player(s)
Andrew, this is really great analysis—thank you for spurring my thinking.
Tx Tom! After I wrote it, I was talking to R. She works for a biggish software company in the Valley and she had just left a meeting about their AI strategy. Where/how to add it for most impact, etc. Someone said why don’t we think about writing an integration with ChatGPT like I talked about — that blew everyone’s mind so they disbanded to take naps.