ChatGPT-style search represents a 10x cost increase for Google, Microsoft

Google hints that an AI chatbot search engine will really cut into its profits.

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Microsoft already has another obvious path to profitability with this, by adding capabilities to Office 365. Would companies be willing to pay a few bucks more per user per month to have access to an AI assistant that knows everything contained in your company's Sharepoint, your OneDrive, and your mailbox, and can provide you with information on demand or compose emails and letters for you with minimal input? I'm guessing that would be an easy sell for most. Forget New Bing, New Clippy could be huge.

I'm not going to lie, being able to ask eg "what does the /v1/frob/buzz API response look like" and not have to trawl our sprawling confluence wiki/JIRA system (or the Google/Microsoft/whatever equivalents) would be incredibly useful. However, it does sound like it would be expensive to build and maintain such a specially trained model, so who knows when that would be a viable product