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ChatGPT has already become my first point of contact for searching new information now. It's far better than Google in situations where I don't even have the b
by tidenly 4y ago
ChatGPT has already become my first point of contact for searching new information now.
It's far better than Google in situations where I don't even have the basic knowledge to know "what really should I even be looking for?".
I'll chat it out with ChatGPT, and then do further reading based on what I've just learned, using Google to get those resources.
I can easily see Google search becoming just a phone book for the internet again, and the information search aspect being hoisted off to some Google-brand ChatGPT in future. It's far more convenient, and you don't have to deal with the low quality SEO spam pages filling up googles results lately.
- heliophobicdude 4y agoThis is my exact use case. I narrow down my searches with ChatGPT. I love your analogy. Google would surely become the phone book of the internet and that's ok!
- krackers 4y agoI've been using it for the same purpose, especially on technical topics where I simply don't have the breadth to even know the specific terms I need to google. Google used to be decent at this a decade back, but recently unless you provide the exact terms and surround them with quotes all you'll get is generic nonsense. So now instead GPT has taken on the role of being a cranky wiseman who will sometimes give good pointers, but will sometimes troll you. But even if you don't take everything it says at face value, it will usually be able to spit out the domain-specific terms that you can then independently lookup in the literature yourself. Oh and another perfect use-case is for writing. It's basically the ideal thesaurus. You can ask it directly words that mean X with a nuance of Y, or for idioms that mean X, or so on.