Google is unquestionably a modern marvel. You can enter a query and receive a catalog of tens of thousands of websites that contain an answer. Before Google, the majority of the web was inaccessible, and searches were hit-or-miss, and mostly fail. Google's algorithm was able to surface the most prominent and relevant websites. However, this is also Google's greatest issue.

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"Google provides information from a variety of trustworthy, up-to-date sources; however, you may have to sift through a few to discover what you're looking for. ChatGPT generates human-like, conversational responses in seconds, but the information may not always be accurate, according to Jennifer Finley, manager at academic ranking service Academic Influence.

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Google does not perform the functions that we believe it does. Or, it does not perform as we would like. Google is a search engine that returns a list of pertinent websites. However, we rarely seek for websites. What we want most are responses to the queries we type.

The other issue with Google is its algorithm. An entire industry has developed around manipulating Google's algorithm to rank deceptive, low-quality websites highly in search results. This search engine optimization (SEO) means that you frequently must navigate through multiple pages of results to find a website that was not algorithmically generated to appear to be a match for your query.

"ChatGPT produces anthropomorphic, conversational responses in a matter of seconds; however, the information may not always be accurate."

Then ChatGPT arrived. It is a chatbot that, among other things, can answer your queries by utilizing the entirety of the internet. The machine-learning foundation of ChatGPT has read the internet, assimilated it, and is able to use this knowledge to generate answers, which it then provides directly. ChatGPT eliminates the middleman, so to speak.

Google has attempted to provide similarly straightforward responses to straightforward queries, and you will frequently find them at the top of the search results. However, Google has also been in difficulty for scraping data from websites and presenting it without credit.

This is the reason why Google is so terrified. We do not use Google to locate websites. It is searched for answers. Who wouldn't prefer a service that provides these answers without the spam and without requiring us to navigate through to websites and then search those for the information we need?

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Useful for... Everything

The capabilities of ChatGPT are quite impressive. You can request recipes, have it compose an essay or book report, and even have it write software. However, it is not performing any of these actions. Instead, the algorithm concocts something based on all the similar Internet content it has discovered.

The not-so-secret secret here is that ChatGPT, like the Dall-E image AI from the same company, is trained on copyrighted data. It may not regurgitate large portions of copyrighted text, but it could not exist without the contributions of the individuals who created those works. Google is in a bind because it cannot immediately begin scouring the Internet to train its models, lest there be an uproar. However, as we will see shortly, Google has its own benefits.

In addition, ChatGPT's synthesis of extant knowledge is unreliable. Despite the fact that it always appears compelling, it frequently produces rather odd outcomes. For instance, ChatGPT's recipe creations may not be to everyone's or anyone's liking.

That does not preclude its usefulness, however. Instead of, for example, asking Google for a new fitness plan and sifting through the results, you simply instruct ChatGPT to create one for you. This is precisely what technology journalist and marathon runner Rhiannon Williams did, and while the plan ChatGPT provided her was evidently flawed, it demonstrates the possibility.

However, Google still has some advantages, such as its access to vast amounts of data.

"[Google] has more data than was used to train ChatGPT. Dushyant Sengar, a data scientist and machine-learning expert, told Lifewire via email, "It has a long history of information, unlike chatGPT, which doesn't have answers for stuff before 2021." "It produces information and credible sources. This is crucial and a significant improvement over chatGPT, which lacks source information and requires users to locate the source before using the information.

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ChatGPT is currently a sometimes-useful novelty. But if it can solve its accuracy problem, it could go from generating convincing but completely inaccurate history essays to completely replacing Google's role as a knowledge provider, leaving Google in the dust just as Google left Ask Jeeves and AltaVista in the dust.

Google is currently scrambling to develop its own AI solution. It's incredible what a little competition can accomplish.