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Despite the hype ChatGPT is not ready to replace search engines yet - no referencing and it literally makes up gibberish if it's not sure. At this point I don't

• visarga 4y ago
  The hallucination part is somewhat solvable, but the inference cost is huge. Especially in the chat format where you want long history, you have to pay for all the previous tokens in each round of dialogue. The cost is about $0.01 per page, so it can become $0.10 per reply after 10 pages of history accumulated. Even short lines of text have the same overhead.
• lonelyasacloud 4y ago
  Fundamentally a Google search typically returns a research project that involves the user attempting to build their own mental model of the "truth". ChatGPT instead returns an answer that needs research to verify facts. This second approach is already quicker for many use cases and can get much better. So yes, the user may still need search engines to verify. But in the future, it seems unlikely that search will be the dominant, primary means of people accessing information. The problem for Google with ChatGPT-a-like results is that they strip out the presentation of Google's ads and one of its most significant revenue streams. The chief advantage of Google acting quickly is it increases its chances of retaining an ad business.