Comment by ryukoposting

I have a non-techy friend who used 4o for that exact reason. Compared to most readily available chatbots, 4o just provides more engaging answers to non-techy questions. He likes to have extended conversations about philosophy and consciousness with it. I showed him R1, and he was fascinated by the reasoning process. Makes sense, given the sorts of questions he likes to ask it.

I think OpenAI is pursuing a different market from Google right now. ChatGPT is a companion, Gemini is a tool. That's a totally arbitrary divide, though. Change out the system prompts and the web frontend. Ta-daa, you're in a different market segment now.