ChatGPT versus Google and the future of search

One of the big tech highlights of the year, as 2022 draws to a close, is the progress that continues to be made in artificial intelligence (AI). Machine-generated art produced using tools such as OpenAI's DALLE-2 or Stability AI's Stable Diffusion model (now on version 2.1) has seen AI cross over into popular culture. Machine learning algorithms have been whirring away in the background for decades, protecting firms against financial crime and in other use cases. But this latest, highly visible crop of AI applications has mainstream appeal, which brings our discussion to ChatGPT versus Google. Typing a search phrase into Google has become the go-to way for discovering all kinds of information ranging from'how to cook a vegan casserole' to'the best way of configuring an Apache HTTP server on Ubuntu'.