The thing that so many of these AI chat-for-search replacement systems miss is that the browsing part of web browsers.
But more importantly, there’s something else about this whole idea of chatting-with-a-computer-to-get-answers-from-the-web that I find incredibly off-putting: the complete lack of potential for serendipity. Clicking on links and landing on random sites has the potential to take me in unexpected directions. And also the web is filled with creative people who have incredibly interesting sites from a visual point of view. All that is absent in a chat-based world and that’s something I just can’t personally accept for myself. Feels like such a boring way to browse the web.
AI has so much potential and interesting use cases but so far I feel terribly uninspired by what I’m seeing out there.
Bingo.