Letters
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Google will launch a rival to ChatGPT
I’ve been extremely impressed by ChatGPT search and agree that it’s the biggest challenger to Google for years (‘Question of the Fortnight’, Issue 700, pictured right). I love how you can ‘talk’ with it to get what feels like human responses.
But what you don’t speculate on is how Google will respond to the threat posed by ChatGPT. It seems obvious to me that it will have to launch its own chat-based search tool to compete. The ‘AI overview’ results that Google gives currently are useless compared with the question-and-answer method offered by ChatGPT. This is the future of search, not typing something into Google and scrolling for ages looking for a relevant website.
John Seymour
We don’t need Windows 11 Lite
I understand Peter Starkey’s frustration with Microsoft claiming that TPM 2.0 is a “nonnegotiable” part of modern computing (Star Letter, Issue 700), but I disagree that the company should make a ‘Lite’ version of Windows 11. Microsoft is already addicted to releasing multiple versions of its tools, often with confusing names that don’t really explain what makes them different to the standard edition. Outlook is the obvious example. I could try to list all the different versions, but I don’t want to lose the will to live.
A ‘Lite’ version of Windows 11 for computers that can’t upgrade to the full operating system is a messy compromise. It might give the wrong impression to people running Windows 10 that they’re upgrading to a more advanced system. I still think Microsoft will buckle under mounting pressure and prolong support for Windows 10.