<story><title>ChatGPT is a ‘code red’ for Google’s search business</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/21/technology/ai-chatgpt-google-search.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aldanor</author><text>I gave it a try with jokes, too. Some jokes were just awful, but some make you think where did that come from.&lt;p&gt;Me:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;    C++ programmer and Rust programmer meet in a bar. Please finish the joke.
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ChatGPT (1):&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;    The C++ programmer says, &amp;quot;I like my code like I like my women: fast and efficient.&amp;quot;
    
    The Rust programmer says, &amp;quot;I like my code like I like my men: safe and concurrent.&amp;quot;

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ChatGPT (2):&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;    The C++ programmer asks the Rust programmer, &amp;quot;What&amp;#x27;s the difference between null and option?&amp;quot; The Rust programmer replies, &amp;quot;One is a way to avoid segfaults, and the other is a way to avoid being a C++ programmer.&amp;quot;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;</text></item><item><author>gcanyon</author><text>Others have pointed out why this might (not) be code red for Google, but I&amp;#x27;ll say that it&amp;#x27;s code red for every ad-supported site on the internet:  just as artists are up in arms over stable diffusion, this potentially abstracts information at a level that simple fact extraction doesn&amp;#x27;t.&lt;p&gt;Once upon a time, Google presented information from Answers.com along with search results. There was a link, so Answers didn&amp;#x27;t mind much (I worked there around that time).&lt;p&gt;Then Google started displaying facts from Google Knowledge Graph alongside search results, cutting out Answers (which had a favored status) and every other site that tried to monetize how tall Abraham Lincoln was (6&amp;#x27;4&amp;quot;).&lt;p&gt;Now Safari lists that information in the Siri Search Suggestion, potentially cutting out Google.&lt;p&gt;In any case, whether it&amp;#x27;s Apple, Google, OpenAI, or someone else, a service that digests the internet and then offers up e.g. &amp;quot;jokes about going fishing&amp;quot; potentially destroys the market for people to publish jokes about fishing.&lt;p&gt;FYI, I just tried, and Chat GPT&amp;#x27;s jokes about fishing are awful. e.g.:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;    Why was the fisherman always calm?

    Because he had a lot of baits!
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The fishing humor section of the internet is safe for now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>moonchrome</author><text>&amp;gt; The C++ programmer asks the Rust programmer, &amp;quot;What&amp;#x27;s the difference between null and option?&amp;quot; The Rust programmer replies, &amp;quot;One is a way to avoid segfaults, and the other is a way to avoid being a C++ programmer.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;This joke has potential.</text></comment>
<story><title>ChatGPT is a ‘code red’ for Google’s search business</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/21/technology/ai-chatgpt-google-search.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aldanor</author><text>I gave it a try with jokes, too. Some jokes were just awful, but some make you think where did that come from.&lt;p&gt;Me:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;    C++ programmer and Rust programmer meet in a bar. Please finish the joke.
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
ChatGPT (1):&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;    The C++ programmer says, &amp;quot;I like my code like I like my women: fast and efficient.&amp;quot;
    
    The Rust programmer says, &amp;quot;I like my code like I like my men: safe and concurrent.&amp;quot;

&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
ChatGPT (2):&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;    The C++ programmer asks the Rust programmer, &amp;quot;What&amp;#x27;s the difference between null and option?&amp;quot; The Rust programmer replies, &amp;quot;One is a way to avoid segfaults, and the other is a way to avoid being a C++ programmer.&amp;quot;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;</text></item><item><author>gcanyon</author><text>Others have pointed out why this might (not) be code red for Google, but I&amp;#x27;ll say that it&amp;#x27;s code red for every ad-supported site on the internet:  just as artists are up in arms over stable diffusion, this potentially abstracts information at a level that simple fact extraction doesn&amp;#x27;t.&lt;p&gt;Once upon a time, Google presented information from Answers.com along with search results. There was a link, so Answers didn&amp;#x27;t mind much (I worked there around that time).&lt;p&gt;Then Google started displaying facts from Google Knowledge Graph alongside search results, cutting out Answers (which had a favored status) and every other site that tried to monetize how tall Abraham Lincoln was (6&amp;#x27;4&amp;quot;).&lt;p&gt;Now Safari lists that information in the Siri Search Suggestion, potentially cutting out Google.&lt;p&gt;In any case, whether it&amp;#x27;s Apple, Google, OpenAI, or someone else, a service that digests the internet and then offers up e.g. &amp;quot;jokes about going fishing&amp;quot; potentially destroys the market for people to publish jokes about fishing.&lt;p&gt;FYI, I just tried, and Chat GPT&amp;#x27;s jokes about fishing are awful. e.g.:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;    Why was the fisherman always calm?

    Because he had a lot of baits!
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
The fishing humor section of the internet is safe for now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bsaul</author><text>If being able to invent those jokes isn&amp;#x27;t a sign of emerging intelligence... I&amp;#x27;m not sure people outside comp science realize the philosophical implications of chatgpt on the human nature.</text></comment>