In India we have a thing called upi which let's us send money from one bank acc to other one, it doesn't matter which app we are using. We can send money from gpay to whatsapp, phonepe, etc. The transactions are directly made via banks and not the app wallets which is much easier to use.
For the premium subscribers it'll be good, but they'll sure ruin the experience for free tier just like Spotify cause they just can't keep their business sustainable without showing vc's some profits.
Nah bro, they would instead send those cars where they would get much more profit. You just can't expect too many cab bookings in a small town of 1500.
Idk bout EU but here in India we have public transport to even remote places and it is sure profitable and many people do use it everyday, even if the population is less many use public transit instead of own veichles in towns.
I don't know. One "problem" is the salary around here. You simply cannot generate enough revenue from anything below 30k people for anything more than school buses (which are both predictable and tax-funded). But you wouldn't need that many rides to justify a taxi. Those _are_ around, even though typically you need to call well in advance. So even if there is like one of those autonomous taxis for a dozen 1.5k villages that will probably be both enough for any reasonable situation and an improvement wrt to the current state
They don't want these chat models to hurt their search business. But due to the hype and fomo they are rushing things up. Their models before bard(before the rush) were good. They just need to get back in a good track and good leadership.
Honestly, I don't AI chat is anywhere near competing with search at this moment in time. It will come, but there's no significant near-term risk that AI chat is going to be the place to go for common Google searches like: "what's the weather like tomorrow in London", "Facebook", "Sofas", "funny cat videos".
AI chat is really only useful for a niche area of the search market orientated around non-real-time question and answer type questions. Eg, "who was the greatest US president?"
The valuable search ad space is mostly around transactional searches like "sofas" where a company could place an ad and convert a user looking for a new sofa. No one is using chatbots for this. That's not to say it's not a risk, but I think people are wrong to think that web search and AI chat are directly competing products. AI chat competes with search in a similar way that Alexa and Siri already does – they're useful within a certain niche.
