I think the skills required will change but more in an adaptation way rather than everything-you-knew-is-now-irrelevant.
I feel like there is a mental architecture to searching where you try and isolate aspects of what you are searching for that are distinct within the broad category of similar but irrelevant things. That kind of mental model I would hope still works well.
For instance consider this query.
"Which clothing outlets on AliExpress are most recommended in forum discussions for providing high quality cloths, favour discussions where there is active engagement between multiple people."
OpenAI search produces a list of candidate stores from this query. Are the results any good? It's going to be quite hard to tell for a while. I know searching for information like this on Google is close to worthless due to SEO pollution.
It's possible that we have at least a brief golden-age of search where the rules have changed sufficiently that attempts to game the system are mitigated. It will be a hard fought battle to see if AI Search can filter out people trying to game AI search.
I think we will need laws to say AI advice should be subject to similar constraints as legal, medical, and financial advice where there is an obligation to act in the interests of the person being advised. I don't want to have AI search delivering the results of the highest bidder.
I feel like there is a mental architecture to searching where you try and isolate aspects of what you are searching for that are distinct within the broad category of similar but irrelevant things. That kind of mental model I would hope still works well.
For instance consider this query.
"Which clothing outlets on AliExpress are most recommended in forum discussions for providing high quality cloths, favour discussions where there is active engagement between multiple people."
OpenAI search produces a list of candidate stores from this query. Are the results any good? It's going to be quite hard to tell for a while. I know searching for information like this on Google is close to worthless due to SEO pollution.
It's possible that we have at least a brief golden-age of search where the rules have changed sufficiently that attempts to game the system are mitigated. It will be a hard fought battle to see if AI Search can filter out people trying to game AI search.
I think we will need laws to say AI advice should be subject to similar constraints as legal, medical, and financial advice where there is an obligation to act in the interests of the person being advised. I don't want to have AI search delivering the results of the highest bidder.