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UX Moats - Sara Du

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Hello all - a hurricane just hit New York so I’m stuck inside today. It’s still beautiful outside, and it’s not too bad to write while listening to the rain. I took a walk with a friend last weekend and he told me about the new search engine he's building. I was a bit dubious about the idea, but it started to make sense after we went over how he’d be leveraging GPT-3. With Open AI's recent NLP advances, you can effectively train a "better" search engine that can respond to any user query. The way we use search today - type a phrase, don’t see what you’re looking for, adjust a few more times, finally get the article you want - will become archaic sooner than we think. Since it's too risky for Google & competitors to release GPT-3 powered search anytime soon, my friend's startup can be first to market with their spin on it. Even if their search model is more naive, they can reach some early users who are intrigued enough by the technology to be forgive an unrefined product. This will giv

Hello all - a hurricane just hit New York so I’m stuck inside today. It’s still beautiful outside, and it’s not too bad to write while listening to the rain. I took a walk with a friend last weekend and he told me about the new search engine he's building. I was a bit dubious about the idea, but it started to make sense after we went over how he’d be leveraging GPT-3. With Open AI's recent NLP advances, you can effectively train a "better" search engine that can respond to any user query. The way we use search today - type a phrase, don’t see what you’re looking for, adjust a few more…

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