MySpace faded because Facebook was born with integration capabilities, making it possible for merchants and creators to use plugins to convert their users into customers. For MySpace, everything was in its closed world. But Facebook gave you ways to login into websites, share your blog posts, link your feed and your website. Think about it, it was like using one stone to kill two birds – and because of that, Facebook won the crown.
As Google looks for a way to challenge ChatGPT, its biggest challenge is that many companies are already integrating ChatGPT; Opera made the call today.
Multi-platform web browser Opera is planning to integrate ChatGPT into its products.
Opera’s parent company Kunlun which made the disclosure did not reveal whether the functions would be available across Opera’s products which include Desktop and Mobile browsers for iOS and Android.
In 2017, Opera revealed that news reading grew exponentially among Opera mobile browser users because it developed its artificial intelligence (AI) engine to provide them with relevant content in a smart way.
The company revealed that the AI system studies users’ news-reading behavior in real-time and learns from it in order to provide them with a personalized news offering, this implies that users get faster and easier access to news and videos that interest them.
If these firms integrate and attain equilibrium, it would be exceedingly difficult for Google Bard to find an opening to compete. Yes, Google+ faded because Facebook was there and just fine, despite all the funds Google put into it, to take down Facebook.
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So, as you watch Google (yes Alphabet) stock, be informed that the race will not happen in years, but quarters, and if Google does not respond fast, a category will be won. In Tekedia Mini-MBA, we use this phrase – category-king company – which means a winner in that category. Most times, you do not have many winners per category (note, I did not say “sector”; Facebook, Tiktok, Instagram and Snapchat are winners in their categories).
I am waiting for a WordPress plugin to integrate Tekedia to ChatGPT and I hope every morning, it can tell me the exchange rate of Naira to US Dollars! Who knows, it can also tell me where to find new Naira notes; I want it handy!
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Comment 1: Chatgpt is fantastic, it is just absolutely difficult for it to displace Google ecosystem, the best route it can go is what its already doing with Microsoft and yet, it still going to be difficult to do what Google does best, (email, map, Android, Gdrive. Gphoto, doc, slide, survey etc) and to be fair, it does different things entirely, it’s a buzz right now and it will go away when its fully integrated into different applications.
The competition for Google right now is Microsoft, Microsoft is gradually breaking Google’s ecosystem with their Microsoft 365 package.
Its going to be a marathon, GPT is just another tool.
My Response: Great point. It is not about supply but demand. ChatGPT made the right call by going with Microsoft. So, this is about Google and Microsoft at least in the search space.
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Google is not quite ready for the sort of expectation we are placing on its shoulders, and this thing is happening faster than it can catch a breath. One more bad step, and it could be over for Google in this race; so I think it would be better for it to calm down and see if it could deliver something worthwhile in its next voyage.
This particular AI race may not be possible for anyone to raise its hand as the winner yet, because we are still not close to what people would like AI to help them do, so if one is dominating consumer space, another can dominate enterprise space; for now there are still many moving parts.
Some in this race will never be profitable, so the wannabes and also rans are all staking some claims for now, until the results are in…
With former OpenAI workers spawning their own startups (possibly to be bought at some stage), it may be wise for Google to keep an eye on their projects. We may be witnessing the era of the AI wars.