Speaker 2
so I think it will be undoubtedly true that these large language models will change how we do search. They'll change how we get answers for things and they'll change how we create information. But I'm not totally sold that like we're going to be texting with chat GPT for like most search needs. I think it's more of this like ambient style assistant where, you know, you can imagine something where you're just hovering in a word document or, you know, doing some other email or something like that. And that's when you would really want the kind of intelligence and generativeness of one of these AI tools. But yeah, I'm not, I don't know, maybe that will end up looking really silly, but I'm
Speaker 1
I think that's a really good point. I think right now the closest proxy is search. So people are just directly comparing the two. But I do think obviously they have a similarity in that they are giving you information that you're kind of asking for. But I agree like the use cases just may end up being quite different. And even on the Google side, you know, they have already been like you said, surfacing what they deem to be the most relevant outside of ads, but the most relevant information. So if you say, when is my flight to, you know, the Caribbean, if you've connected Gmail, that can actually show up in your search, or if you're using the Google Assistant, it will be in there as well. And yeah, so there's that context, that personal level of context, which at the moment, some from that chat GPT doesn't have at the moment, but again, could work in the future if you connected it to all your accounts. But yeah, it's a really interesting idea to think about like essentially what is search and even going back, you know, search has been around for so long now that we just think of it as like this one thing, but even if you think of like voice search, like, right, I still use Siri though is terrible. And I really use it just to call my parents like when I'm walking, I don't want to take my phone out and it will work for that. I set a timer or something like that. Essentially Alexa, Google Home and Siri, that's pretty much the only real use cases I have after many years of these things being around. Totally. But again, like voice, that is a type of search, right, so voice search. 100%. And so I actually think like an assistant like this in the long run would be amazing if you could just actually speak to it and go back and forth. And you know, that really is what Google Assistant is supposed to be. It's been around for some time. It doesn't work at this level, but it was supposed to. I remember a demo internally where it would like cool, you could say, Hey, can you make an appointment for me at the DMV? And you know, like next week, you know, my schedule already. And so because they have access to calendar, there's an assistant, a litchy cause and it's supposed to be like holding for you for 25 minutes because they're never like going on to you straight away. And then it will essentially do that for you. And for some like that, they 100% can do that. Like the technology is already there. It's just like no one's using that, right? And it's not the threshold again hasn't been met where everyone knows you can do that. So again, a lot of this stuff I feel like is just science fiction until someone actually creates the version where it really works. So yeah, interesting to see how this plays out. Last question on that, unless you had another point, it looked like you might have something to say
Speaker 2
there. No, I was just going to say very quickly, I think that's totally how I would, I would agree with you. And I think that's like maybe one of the most interesting parts of the chat GPT entrance when we think of it with search, which is that like historically, Google has like monopolized every question that humans had, and I'm not sure that's like necessarily a given in the future. And so chat GPT is like disrupting it. Maybe not in the sense that, oh, Google has done or anything like that. But in the sense that I think we will have different venues for different types of questions and like voice will become a much more compelling channel. You know, chat might work for some things, et cetera, et cetera. And so I think it just sort of like makes that space dynamic and open for creative approaches again, which is like something I'm interested in.