While specialized tools for each job are important, most people have a Swiss army knife with them. That’s for 80% of the job for most people.

Last week over 100 Generative tools were released – from resume builders to Bloomberg Finance GPT.

While most people I believe will still use ChatGPT, each role (engineers will still subscribe to CoPilot from GitHub, and marketers will likely subscribe to ChatSpot from HubSpot) will have their special tools.

I liken this to the similar explosion of eCommerce and B2B sites in 1997 – 2000.

Amazon would help you buy everything, but collectors loved eBay, and overstock still exists as does Zappos for shoes and Zulily for fashion.

Frequently Asked Questions

1. Why can’t Google do better than ChatGPT? They have better resources, lots of talent and money.

Google can do better, will do it and is already doing this. The same can be said about when Google first came and Microsoft had more money, resources and talent but still got upended by Google in search. ChatGPT has distribution quickly (over 100 Million users). While another AI chatbot is a click away, so is Google search. Still, billions of people use Google over Bing because it is better.

2. Do you need more than one chatbot? Is there room for Bard and ChatGPT?

Most people will use one or two chatbots (or more) depending on their need. Most people like to have a second opinion, especially when it comes to non factual questions. Meaning, when questions are subjective in nature, you need to get another opinion.

Many datasets (such as LinkedIn or Facebook) will not share their data with either Google or OpenAI. They might roll out their own chatbot. The folks that need it will use them.

When Netflix first came, most people did not think they needed more than one streaming service. Now we have 10+ in the US alone with over 10 Million users and the average user has 3 accounts or more.