Google may be about to make the biggest strategy change in its history

Google is weighing up charging customers to use its AI products. We should be begging it to.

Paid-for AI will be far better, and much more useful in the long run – and it is customers that will come out ahead.Google’s owner Alphabet is weighing up whether to put its AI-powered search features behind a paywall.It could turn out to be the biggest change of strategy in the company’s 25-year history. According to reports, Alphabet, as the owner of the Google search empire is now called, is weighing up whether to put its AI-powered search features behind a paywall, forcing consumers to pay to use them; or whether to keep them completely free, as its basic search function, email server, maps, and all the other services it provides are at the moment.Other AI services are grappling with a similar dilemma.

Via: theage.com.au