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I really love it. A lot of people may be trying to look at all the edge cases and find glitches but it you search it from the point of view of an average search

I really love it. A lot of people may be trying to look at all the edge cases and find glitches but it you search it from the point of view of an average search user this is just groundbreaking. I mean as a regular joe I am trying to find an answer to my main question like say what is Bitcoin and then I have a lot of follow up questions like what is ethereum and today I may stumble on an article that answers my main question but may not have anything on the follow up thoughts in my head, so I have to go back and rinse and repeat and skim through an awful lot of stuff before I get what I want. But this thing is just amazing, it answered everything I wanted to know originally, followed by all the things I needed clarification about right there including things I find confusing. I know Google has had competition before like DDG and Bing but they always felt like something I would try to use because it's not the evil Google, not because they were better. But after having used this I can say Google finally has a competitor that I will probably use again because it is actually better.

wpietri 4y ago
I think it's much worse from the perspective of an average search user. The problem is that GPT is confidently wrong. If I know the topic well, I can spot when it's BSing. But if I don't, it's much harder to say. The average search user is almost definitionally somebody ill prepared to tell the difference between truth and truthy-sounding nonsense.
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- ghoomketu 4y ago
  Yes I thought about that too but the thing is so are the search results on Google. You never know the site on the top will give you accurate information or not. This also avoids the problem of deliberately skewed search results full of affiliate links to promote products veiled as useful content (of which the web is full).
  - fourthark 4y ago
    I’m sure the next step is to figure out how to infuse gpt chat with deliberately skewed results and product promotions veiled as useful content.
DangitBobby 4y ago
Yes, I love it and plan to use it. I asked it for a recipe for a twice baked potato where the first part of the bake is in the microwave and was not disappointed.

wpietri 4y ago

I think it's much worse from the perspective of an average search user. The problem is that GPT is confidently wrong. If I know the topic well, I can spot when it's BSing. But if I don't, it's much harder to say. The average search user is almost definitionally somebody ill prepared to tell the difference between truth and truthy-sounding nonsense.

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ghoomketu 4y ago
Yes I thought about that too but the thing is so are the search results on Google. You never know the site on the top will give you accurate information or not. This also avoids the problem of deliberately skewed search results full of affiliate links to promote products veiled as useful content (of which the web is full).
- fourthark 4y ago
  I’m sure the next step is to figure out how to infuse gpt chat with deliberately skewed results and product promotions veiled as useful content.

DangitBobby 4y ago

Yes, I love it and plan to use it. I asked it for a recipe for a twice baked potato where the first part of the bake is in the microwave and was not disappointed.