Yes, they'll have problems too, but will they be as bad?
The issue in this example is that the results were also SEO optimized for Google. These days Google's results just seem liked paid placements or stuff SEO engineered to appear there.
Duckduckgo is far from perfect, but it seems better than Google at returning organic results.
Google's search page has got noticeably worse in recent years, for a long list of reasons - here's another indication it's going to get even worse. I find myself using Duckduckgo more and more - it has its problems, but they are not as bad.
There's a great collection of creative ideas contained in this, though you can clearly see it's all within the framework of OP's conservative worldview (OP is senior economist for the Foundation for American Innovation).
If you live within the EU the idea that government structures will collapse to be replaced by the occasional oasis of corporate feudalist walled gardens within a wider failed state seems far-fetched, yet that is his vision for America.
I'm an AI optimist in general, but I have a depressing feeling the likes of Meta will model these AIs to relentlessly deliver attention to content above all else. Will there by an angry Karen chatbot endlessly screeching about 'wokeness'? It won't be like Facebook if there isn't.
This is a statement of the optimistic and rosy outlook for AI and jobs. Their argument is based on Jevons paradox, an observation in economics that as the marginal cost goes down then demand goes up. I wonder how this will hold up when we have some version of AGI that can do all work (even physical work via robots). If no one can compete with this AGI for wages - who pays for all the demand?
I think its real potential (as yet unexplored) is in disintermediation.
Two parties, who do not know each other, and want to conduct business rely on so many intermediaries who provide services, and crucially, trust - who all take their cut. Lawyers, bankers, etc
Blockchain could not only automate the processes, but also be designed to replicate trust.
Also, that potential isn't just about efficiency - its about power, and taking it away from industries and institutions - banking, etc
Before it got taken over by grifters, there was a time people thought blockchain could solve a lot of problems and create new opportunities - will it ever recover?
The logical follow on from this is that it will be easy to clone and create audiobooks in anyone's voices. Stephen Fry received attention recently for talking about this issue, and it seems many people don't realize what AI can now do in this field.
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This is the bit I was concerned about.
As great as multimodal capabilities are, it fails to eradicate hallucinations, & lacks the ability to continually assess and amend its own output until it reaches the desired level of accuracy. So this advance doesn't fix the big problems.
I wish someone would develop a search engine that only used a few thousand top curated information sources - wikipedia & so on. I'm sick of wasting my time on SEO spam.