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> It's pretty hard to imagine any answer that is useful, no matter how trivial, if it's wrong 20% of the time But that means that the error is independent of t
by LeanderK 4y ago
> It's pretty hard to imagine any answer that is useful, no matter how trivial, if it's wrong 20% of the time
But that means that the error is independent of the search term. That's not my experience. Of course you can't trust it 100% but I think it's pretty good for easy searches to a degree that I would trust it to be correct. You have to get used to the tool. If the accuracy is good enough for easy search terms for people to get some use out of it, then we have a product I think. Of course it's probabilistic but even wikipedia is wrong sometimes. These things won't be correct, it's always an approximation, but that's also a reality of live. Information is inherently unreliable and so are our tools.
Just view those tools as you would view humans. They help, they can be wrong, and if you need confidence you have to get some sources. At least that's how I would view them.
Wether this all works out is another question. But it's an approach different to search as it exists and may complement it. People thought Siri would revolutionise everything and then it didn't.
- davidy123 4y agoI agree with what you are staying, but any time it's presented as more than a research tool, maybe useful for the most trivial answers, it's a problem. It should be emphasized that it is based on sources and helps scour and fake-summarize them, but despite Microsoft calling it a "copilot for the web," that's not how it's being received. It would simply be better if every statement it made were referenced.