It feels like we're moving towards this, like, search paradigm where search is going to

get a little more fun, a little more entertaining, and possibly not any more accurate.

And instead, the debates that we're going to have about who gets to decide what are being

entrusted to huge complicated machine learning, you know, models that we have no idea how

they're trained or what they're going to do.

It's got some, like, Lincoln Nightfare.

Welcome to Radio Atlantic.

I'm staff writer Amanda Moll, and I'm here with fellow staff writer Charlie Wartzel who

writes back technology for us.

Lately, Charlie's been considering the nascent AI arms race between Google and Microsoft.

In why, is he put it in a recent piece, Clippy has touched the face of God.

Charlie.

It's great to have you.

Happy to be here.

Happy to talk about Clippy.

Great.

Great.

So Charlie, lately you've been writing about and reporting on AI now that Bing and Google

have mutually decided to make all of us think about AI.

But first, I want to talk about finding a bookcase.

Let's do it.

Let's let being be our search butler here.

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