Category: Sculpting

The ‘search within results’ feature of the Google search engine could have led to the current generation of GenAI tools, much before anyone else developed them. Dropping this feature probably cost Google technological leadership in an area that would have been its natural preserve

Notwithstanding the ‘qualified success’ of chatGPT, AI and all its branches are in early stages of evolution. It is naïve and irresponsible to call for regulation without a deep understanding of the science behind AI and all its branches, each of which is a highly specialized field. In any case, the global record of regulation isn’t inspiring

Generative AI tools like chatGPT, if embraced the way they have been, pose the gravest danger to the very process of knowing. If an aid to the process becomes the process, we are staring at dark times, notwithstanding all the tall claims made, deeply affecting students and teachers alike

chatGPT has taken the world by storm much like Carlos Alcaraz has taken the tennis world, generating fear across the globe with high profile exits and calls for regulation to protect from the likely harm arising out of such AI tools. Generative AI offsprings like chatGPT (and potential rivals) are merely the latest in the development of machine intelligence but at a scale that is staggering and frightening. Extremely few companies in the world have the financial prowess to build them, creating an oligopolistic competitive field.

Search has become a fiercely contested space in the US at present and likely to be followed in other parts of the world, owing to the spread of language AI engines such as chatGPT among the masses. Search, as a business, has a special significance for Google as it funds R&D, so critical to any tech business. Quite possibly, its developing battle with Microsoft will have consequences that can have greater impact than we can viusualize now, irrespective of how a language AI works with search engines.