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Larry Magid: Is artificial intelligence the next search engine?
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I still remember the impact of Google, back around 1998, which fundamentally changed the way we search for information. Even though I still use it multiple times a day, that quarter-century-old sea…

Even though I still use it multiple times a day, that quarter-century-old search engine is looking pretty anemic compared with ChatGPT from OpenAI and the “new Bing” from Microsoft, which uses technology from OpenAI. But Google isn’t sitting still. It’s launching its own AI chatbot, called Bard, which is currently available only to a limited number of people in the U.S. and U.K.

I asked her if she was worried about it being used by students trying to deceive teachers into thinking it’s their own work. She said it is a concern, but said she could tell immediately when one of her students turned in an assignment that was created using AI because it differed greatly from the student’s writing style and contained information that hadn’t yet been covered in class.

Speaking of decisions, I would never rely on AI or even Google for medical advice about a serious condition, but as an experiment, I did ask ChatGPT what to do if I experience abdominal pain and forwarded its response to Dr. Daniel Rengstorff, a Redwood City-based gastroenterologist who agrees that it gave “a very reasonable answer and to some degree it is how we think as doctors when assessing a patient.

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