Can ChatGPT Replace Google : An Unbiased and Unexcited Viewpoint

Recently launched ChatGPT by OpenAI is being hailed as the next big thing that can dethrone Google : But is this claim right or a bit too early beat the drums

Since the launch of chatGPT there has been a lot of excitement and it crossed 1 million users in a week’s time and so came the big revelation of being compared with the giant of the search engine industry GOOGLE. The comparison has not stopped at merely comparison but has gone beyond to being claimed that chatGPT is going to end Google or replace Google. The discussion is no more around competition or giving a tough fight, it is more of a winning statement that is coming up.

Most of the comments or decisions it seems are made based on the emotional sentiment and initial excitement. This is but natural as AI based applications were giving out gibberish whereas ChatGPT has been able to give much more meaningful answers. But killing Google as of now is quite farfetched and we need to let the initial excitement dust settle down and then make such a comment.

Another claim and fear that has come to fore quite early on is loss of jobs due AI being too good and its implication in the customer support industry as well as education or even software developers. Sounds like SKYNET has arrived right out of the famous Terminator movie and machines are going to take over. But like the end of Skynet the same looks initial shock excitement on getting something very good and declaring all the past things are going to perish.

I just like a lot of other people registered on chatGPT to check out what it is all about and how it has generated so much excitement that it has become the giant killer and it struck me right then – “Sign up”; as a user looking to search for anything I have to sign up first and then search. A very big deterrent for the masses who is accustomed to just typing there queries right in the chrome browser and who do not care to even first open google search and then search. It is simply about ease of use and on-boarding. With google there is no on-boarding or learning which makes it the first choice for anyone and everyone whereas with chatGPT this is bogged down by registration and two step validation (email and phone) which makes it not so user friendly.

The next step that everyone is excited about is the accuracy of the answer. Little exploration and the limitation of chatGPT comes to fore that it is not a real time system as being understood by a lot of people. The intelligence is a year old (2021) and it is not answering based on latest information. The data scraping was done and the AI system answers based on that scrapped data. So in this every moving and fast changing world the information being shown to us is based on a year-old data. However accurate it maybe it is not latest and this is where Google beats chatGPT in my understanding.

Another glitch in the armour of chatGPT is its lack of updating itself of getting the answers from the internet in real time. I tried to search for few very generic things for which you will get good amount of answers / links on Google for which I got some disappointed machine answers as can b seen in the screenshots

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