Further generations of humans—or robots—might one day look back on this week as the tipping point in the way that computers and people interact. On Monday, CEO Sundar Pichai announced Google’s new chatbot, dubbed Bard, based on its previously disclosed AI bot LaMDA. (It also reportedly made a $400 million investment in the large-language-model startup Anthropic.) A day later, Microsoft unveiled a new version of search engine Bing, powered by OpenAI’s breakaway hit ChatGPT. In barely more time than it takes to fulfill a query, artificial-intelligence-powered systems became a critical component to search, the internet’s most powerful application.
Prepare yourself for endless discussion of the implications. But I had already tumbled into that rabbit
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