During an interview with podcaster Lex Fridman on Monday, Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, expressed his disinterest in competing with Google in the search engine sector. Instead, he emphasised his desire for people to utilise a superior product.
While responding to Fridman’s comparison between ChatGPT and Google Search. Altman said, “I find that boring. I mean, if the question is if we can build a better search engine than Google or whatever, then sure, we should go, people should use the better product.”
“But I think that would understate what this can be,” he added.
Altman is not interested in creating a duplicate of Google
In the interview, Altman emphasised that OpenAI isn’t aiming to replicate Google Search. Rather, he expressed a desire to innovate a more effective method for people to discover, engage with and digest information.
“The thing that’s exciting to me is not that we can go build a better copy of Google search, but that maybe there’s just some much better way to help people find and act on and synthesise information,” Altman told Fridman.
In a correlated development, Google is poised to elevate its AI-chatbot, directly competing with Open AI’s ChatGPT. Despite recent criticism, the company has successfully integrated Gemini into the Samsung Galaxy S24 series. According to Bloomberg’s report, Apple is also exploring a partnership with Google to introduce AI features into the iPhone.
However, Google faced backlash when users reported that Gemini was generating images of people of colour with inaccurate historical contexts. In response, Google announced a temporary halt to Gemini’s ability to generate such images, with plans to release an updated version soon.
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