The Real Meaning of OpenAI's SearchGPT

OpenAI's release of a search engine "plug-in" on steroids is a clever pivot. It also says too much about AI.

Hi everyone,

I’m intending this and other posts to be a series on why we’re creating another tech-bubble. I’m still working on that larger project. Here’s a note about SearchGPT, and why I think it’s both smart of OpenAI, and in a very real sense, not.

OpenAI Releases SearchGPT

OpenAI announced this month the upcoming release of “SearchGPT,” a LLM-based search capability intended to leverage the text summarization and natural language prowess of LLMs on a well proven and core technology: search.

That’s a smart move. Google’s stock tumbled last week, a result of over-investing in AI and slower advertising sales, but no doubt also investor reaction to possible competition from SearchGPT. It’s also a dumb move. Here’s why.