Rizwan Virk

But what it does is it shows that, you know, as AI becomes the way that we interface with the world's information, and it's moving in that direction, right?

For my students, I mean, they use something like ChatGPT before they'll do a Google search in some cases.

Because it summarizes things for you.

So in a sense, there is this worry, and that's why Google went so heavily to try to get Gemini out, was there's this sense that chatbots and AI will replace search.

Before search, if you think before Google, how did we navigate the web?

There was Yahoo, which was like a directory, right?

And then there was Excite, which was like a little bit of a search, but it was more of a categorization.

People would have web links, web rings.

I don't know if you remember any of these.

There were all these ways.

And then search became the dominant paradigm for the last, I don't know, since when did Google come out?

Late 90s, early 2000s or so.

And now people think, well, okay, AI is going to become the next paradigm for how we get that information.

But

The problem is you get into a situation where the tech companies then, in this case, they were using their own rules.

Now, they were doing it for a good reason, which is in the past, AI has been biased against minorities, right?

So if you said, show me a picture of a CEO, it'll show you a white guy.

or certain professions that'll always show you a woman as the picture, as the generic picture.

And so they were trying, but they went over the line to the other direction, right?

But it shows the ability with which we can manipulate this stuff, because at least with search results,