Today I got my invitation to try out the new SearchGPT, which is OpenAI’s attempt at creating some kind of revenue-generating market for itself. I was prepared to hate it, but in an exhaustive 30 second testing session, it’s actually pretty cool.
The first thing I wanted to try, naturally, is to see if a query which SHOULD bring up Slope would do any such thing. I asked if there were any websites that specialized in short selling stocks.
It then presented me with a list of brokers, which isn’t even close to what I was asking.
So, I got more specific (see, the thing with this kind of search engine is that it’s more of a dialectic experience as opposed to one-off queries).
It then presented me a list of ZeroHedge and Hindenburg Research. Again, that isn’t what I was after (and, c’mon, ZH has become a permabull Goldman shill, so gimme a break). So I decided to cheat and use my name directly.
That’s when things got a bit more useful and mildly impressive…………
This was the response that I thought was pretty cool:
In summary, I liked it more than I thought I would. The real question is – – – is this search experience so much better than Google that people will opt to use this instead? I have my doubts!
