Google is reportedly drawing up plans to charge for AI-enhanced search features

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[–]Canbot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I think the big disconnect is that you think an AI search engine will work like a traditional search engine. Forget that completely. Imagine you have an assistant and you ask them to research something for you. They are not going to reach into their briefcase and pull out the research. They are going to go do the research.

An AI search engine will be an agent that is optimized for searching the web, overcoming censorship, evading subversion and manipulation and curating the results so instead of getting 50 garbage results from google that you have to parse through yourself and never get what you really want because it is wrong think you instead get 5 results of exactly what you want, and a professional quality summary of it all.

[–]binaryblob 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Google uses neural networks in their ranking function since a long time. You can't go and search the entire Internet for every single query, because it would cost $10000/query (or whatever big number it is). So, you still need an index somewhere. An agent would still take the action "find in some index" and that index needs to be created and paid for by someone. In your world, everyone has their own index or there is some shared index (that could work, but is very much not popular). There are all kinds of reasons why this is not going to work, but I asked you how it is going to work and you have not said anything specific. It's almost as if you are a LLM.