ChatGPT harkens back to the playful and exploratory experience jumping on the early Internet of the 1990s. They have something great, and I just sincerely hope they find a monetization scheme that does not devolve into the pile of degenerate IQ-melting garbage like Google/Facebook/TikTok.

Traditional Search, as we knew it, is dead.

I sincerely hope they fail to monetize it at all and go bankrupt, though that certainly won't happen. What we have here is a tool which can 10x productivity, into which the world will willingly pour all their data, and it's entirely closed source and run by Microsoft. This is a pants-on-fire existential threat to the precarious situation we currently have where it's possible - barely - to do actual commercial work on computers you entirely control.

Or if OpenAI will just drop a truck of cash on Wolfram taken out of the pro subs, no added cost to user.

I am very confident that in the current situation (looks at google), microsoft itself will HAPPILY shower wolfram in money just to make ChatGPT more powerful fast.

For now get on the waitlist if you're a chatGPT pro user https://openai.com/waitlist/plugins

"If auth is required, users will be redirected via OAuth to your plugin; you can optionally create new accounts here as well."

From the docs: https://platform.openai.com/docs/plugins/introduction

I think there are two issues here.

1) No one knows how much customers are willing to pay for something like this.

Like if suddenly you developed a commercially viable plane in 1903, what would people pay for flight service?

2) No one knows the actual cost to operate this when considering TCO.

How much of the training cost do we recoup? What is the inference cost for the average one of the questions Wolfram+GPT will be asked.

Looks like cost doesn't matter...? It's too expensive to not have this capability