ChatGPT’s ‘IPhone Moment’ Is Real Threat to Google: Parmy Olson

April 3, 2023, 4:00 AM UTC

Just as we were getting used to the idea of ChatGPT writing emails and conducting research, OpenAI has upgraded it with capabilities that make it even more of a threat to big tech companies such as Google. ChatGPT’s new plugins, released last week with relatively little fanfare, are a major leap forward for the technology.

In a nutshell, it is going from merely generating text to taking action on the web, turning it into the type of powerful virtual assistant that Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Apple Inc. have been trying to build for years.

ChatGPT’s plugins allow businesses to essentially plug the tool into ...

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