What can be a better product for me than ChatGPT?

TL;DR: I think it's (an upgraded version of) Google Assistant. Because as an Android user, I already gave it all my preferences and personal data (I’m the product being sold, I know!). I would pay for it as much as I would pay for ChatGPT to keep my data private (take my money, don’t sell me) and have an assistant/coach that is smart, fast, have knowledge about everything in the world, knows almost everything about me, and can keep its mouth shut about what it knows.?

So ChatGpt took the world by storm, I'm using it every day now, it helps reduce so much time on tasks like researching, comparing stuff, or analyzing and summarizing load of texts. In fact, its power is one of the reasons we’ve just migrated CoderPush 's internal documenting platform from Slide to Coda (there’s a ChatGPT Coda pack that we plan to use since we generate A LOT of text at our company from meetings, 1-1, project documents and so much more).

Just now Google released an article about Bard (supposedly ChatGPT competitor) and while it didn’t help the company stock ($100B disappeared since the announcement of Bard ??), it surely helped remind me that Google actually has a Bot powered by AI that I have been using EVERYDAY since like 6 years ago. It’s Google Assistant - the “simple” app that almost all Android users have on their device (not sure how many % actually use it though?)

Since I have a Google Mini at home that helps control several devices such as lights, TV, air conditioning etc.. my kids were familiar with asking “Miss Google” to do simple tasks like “count down 30 minutes”, “turn off the TV”, “how’s the weather?” from a young age.

Now that they are in school and start having homework, they would ask for knowledge stuff like “do ants have brains?” and Google Assistant has been helpful in providing answers and follow-up info

For me, Google Assistant has been very limited in supporting work, only simple stuff like “remind me to checkout blah blah” or “wake me up in 15 minutes”, not much contribution to the labor-intense works like researching, finding patterns in a chunk of text or quickly draw a table comparing different tools. The features that GA satisfied me the most were “silent” assisting tasks like:

• Read my emails and automatically add flight schedule, hotel reservation to my calendar when it sees confirmation emails.
• Send a push notification to my phone saying that I have a meeting at an address 45 minutes away but I should go now so that I can catch the bus 7 minutes walk away. Super thankful for that feature! (this was in Europe, we don’t have this in Vietnam)

All of that was made possible due to the fact that I’m immersed in the Google Ecosystem, giving it all the data that it needs to serve me (and to sell me as an ads target and who knows what else, but that’s ok for now). Switching away from this environment means a switch in work and life routines set up that I’m so not ready for (not to mention I don’t see suitable alternative options yet)

While ChatGPT is undoubtedly the best at what it does, it requires me to spend time writing the correct prompt to provide context (most of which are available in all the texts I have in my emails, Google docs, Keep notes, and contact list). While I will probably pay the $20 monthly bill for ChatGPT Plus soon, I can imagine it would be a no-brainer to pay Google the same or maybe more to have the same capability (and stop selling me as a product you ??hole). Given that it knows my preference, where I am, my daily routine, my writing style, I can imagine the same tasks that I give ChatGPT can be reduced to just a few word prompts.

For a company as big as Google, how hard it is to build something like that? My data is there, you only need to:

• Pull those data and build a virtual me so that I don’t have to repeat myself when giving orders. (ChatGPT was not able to save my preference when I say compare A and B, I always want to see the comparison in a table, and yet I have to tell it to “tabulate data” every time)
• Improve the conversational ability to provide more human-like responses?
• Add more options to present results: draw tables, graphs and maybe also copy the way Neeva shows answers with citings too.
• Last but not least important, secures my data, makes it private to me so that I can share even more confidential secrets which will make you not an assistant but actually my coach.

Well, the day you can do that, just shut up and take my money 谷歌