> What's the next breakthrough idea that extracts the good signal from all the noise of a trillion web pages? Here's another recent Show HN that demoed a new s

> What's the next breakthrough idea that extracts the good signal from all the noise of a trillion web pages? Here's another recent Show HN that demoed a new search engine: Show HN: Goopt – Search Engine for a Procedural Simulation of the Web with GPT-3 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30443738 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30443738 I know this was offered as a bit of joke. But it prompted a really thought-provoking discussion and seemed to me to suggest a genuine paradigm shift in search or information organization. It is a novel way to extract a useful signal from all the noise. It brought to my mind "Dr. Know" from Spielberg's AI movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0QkgAuEPbk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0QkgAuEPbk Will the signal be a good one? It will need to get better and inevitably will. The thing that worries me: will it even matter?