ChatGPT isn’t likely to replace search as a product, but the AI ecosystem, at some point, may provide the users with alternatives to traditional search.
Sam Altman believes that instead of doing a better search engine function, AI, and AGI can provide something different, something beyond search, or open up a functionality that may not have been thought of before.
Thinking that it would just be a better search engine can be an unnecessary technological limitation created by the mind.