The following report is by The Trends Journal:
About 13 million American adults are using ChatGPT, TikTok, and other AI-powered search tools instead of Google, Bing, and the usual engines, a number that will grow to 90 million by 2027, according to data from consulting firm Activate.
AI is luring users away from conventional search engines because it’s able to provide more precise and more closely tailored answers, Activate CEO Michael Wolf said in a presentation at The Wall Street Journal’s Tech Live conference in late October.
The search industry, with its $100 billion in annual ad revenue, “is up for grabs,” he added.
Generative AI fundamentally changes the model for search because the results are no longer links. It serves up your information already packaged and ready to use.
He said
The more familiar an AI is with a user’s history, the more customized its responses to queries will be.
TikTok will take an early lead, Wolf said, because users spend an average of 54 minutes a day with it, compared to 49 on YouTube, 33 on Instagram, and 31 on Facebook, he pointed out. The more time a user spends on an app, the more data the user leaves behind about habits and preferences.
Google, Bing, and other major search engines are already incorporating AI to help hone their responses to queries. However, people are spending more and more time on social media and entertainment platforms, Wolf noted, so they’re likely to use those for Internet searches without having to switch to another site.
The typical American adult spends a staggering 13 hours a day interacting with various digital technologies, ranging from tablets and smartphones to social media, streaming, and gaming sites, Activate data shows.
AI also is turning everyone into a content creator, Wolf said. By speaking a few sentences into a chatbot, a person can create stories, photos, videos, and other works without knowing how to code.
Among Wolf’s other predictions:
- By 2027, almost all Americans will have Internet access through their television sets, driving greater demand for more content and contributing even more data about their habits and preferences to marketing companies.
- Also by 2027, the typical American will have 5.8 subscriptions to streaming services, compared to 4.9 now.
- With streaming services offering lower monthly fees if viewers are willing to see ads, ad revenues among streaming services will grow 25 percent annually over the next three years.
TRENDPOST: Our ability to interact with other humans shrivels in proportion to the amount of time we spend devoting our attention to screens, streams, and apps. Having a heart-to-heart with a chatbot is not a substitute for human contact, even if some of us might prefer it to people.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
And yet AI is being pushed as a god that will liberate and save us from all our problems, and be this infinite wellspring of knowledge. Nothing could be further from the truth.
But, the AI that has now been installed in practically all search engines and browsers now is slowly conditioning the masses to accept this new convenience. Most people only read the first few articles or maybe the entire page of search results to begin with. Now whatever the AI tells them that’ll be it and people will just accept that fabricated answer.
I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of witty inventions.
Proverbs 8:12
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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It’s pretty obvious to me that this is the highly intelligent image of the beast that speaks and sets out the mandates for the three distinct tools that make up the m.o.t.b. system in Rev.13: 15-17. Taking any one of the following three will condemn a person to Hell:
1. An actual mark or implant (implant or visible QR code)
2. The number of the beast (QR code)
3. The name of the beast (yet to be determined, after the beast has been named).
It is the “speaking image of the beast” that “causes or makes” the people to take any one of these three choices…to enroll into his evil program. Neither the False Prophet or the AC enforce this; it’s the talking image that does.
This article proves that people are primed, ripe, and ready to sell their souls, just so they can remain in a hellishly enslaving society. Why? Probably because most are afraid of dying.
Hebrews 2:15 And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.
Amen
Not this American. Why would I want the artificial, the counterfeit, the idol when I can crack my King James Bible, study & pray, & receive REAL intelligence, and the greatest, best, highest, most holy that is? Then go to evident truth sources with wisdom, discernment & diligence….able to prove & not taking that blind leap of faith that every idol and counterfeit demands, but the sighted, intelligent & mature faith of the justified & redeemed? We can have the very mind of Christ, and without cutting off our noses to spite our faces, or abandoning the blessed hope…..not of ourselves, but in Christ. Praising God for his mercy. 1 Corinthians & 1 Thessalonians 5 KJB.