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> chatGPT’s conversational mode requires a lot of superfluous language, whereas a Google search does better with only keywords I was recently travelling in ano

> chatGPT’s conversational mode requires a lot of superfluous language, whereas a Google search does better with only keywords I was recently travelling in another country and was able to ask ChatGPT for breakfast/lunch/dinner recommendations suiting a particular style within "walking distance" from where I was and it knocked it out of the park. All great, detailed, bulleted recommendations that I may have otherwise overlooked, as I had already done Google searches on this. It was really an eye-opener, despite having interacted with it already in a variety of different ways. I will note one recommendation was permanently closed, a lack of it's current knowledge, but I informed it that the recommendation was wrong, it "thanked" me and told me I was correct and that it would not recommend this location in the future. I have no idea whether any of that is true, but it was quite interesting.

soco 4y ago
Were the recommended places all real places?
- EMM_386 4y ago
  > Were the recommended places all real places? For us, they worked. They were all real minus the one I mentioned, and the descriptions weren't vague. They were accurate and what we were looking for.
stnmtn 4y ago
From my understanding of ChatGPT, it will not remember that it all. It isn't fully aware that its knowledge stops at 2021, and will hallucinate that it has the ability to store information. It doesn't. If you asked again in the same conversation, I'm sure it would remember, but a fresh chat session would result in ChatGPT telling you that the closed restaurant is open
KineticLensman 4y ago
> I was recently travelling in another country and was able to ask ChatGPT for breakfast/lunch/dinner recommendations I just tried this out myself, 'please recommend restaurants near (my home town)'. ChatGPT identified several real, local, pubs, giving generic descriptions such as 'This traditional British pub serves delicious food, including locally sourced meats and vegetables. They offer a range of pub classics like fish and chips, as well as more modern dishes like lamb rump with sweet potato mash'. None of the descriptions really sold the pubs to me. One of the descriptions put the pub concerned in the wrong village. But it was no worse than asking Google the same thing, and without adverts (yet).
archagon 4y ago
I recently asked chatGPT for the best bánh mì restaurants in a particular city, and it gave me a great list of answers... except half those restaurants weren't actually in the city.
- Gigachad 4y ago
  Yeah it sometimes works but isn’t great for this kind of question it’s absolutely perfect for questions about something you’d read on Wikipedia. It’s like having a subject matter expert with you. It’s sometimes wrong but the value is still immense.

soco 4y ago

Were the recommended places all real places?

EMM_386 4y ago
> Were the recommended places all real places? For us, they worked. They were all real minus the one I mentioned, and the descriptions weren't vague. They were accurate and what we were looking for.

stnmtn 4y ago

From my understanding of ChatGPT, it will not remember that it all. It isn't fully aware that its knowledge stops at 2021, and will hallucinate that it has the ability to store information. It doesn't. If you asked again in the same conversation, I'm sure it would remember, but a fresh chat session would result in ChatGPT telling you that the closed restaurant is open

KineticLensman 4y ago

> I was recently travelling in another country and was able to ask ChatGPT for breakfast/lunch/dinner recommendations I just tried this out myself, 'please recommend restaurants near (my home town)'. ChatGPT identified several real, local, pubs, giving generic descriptions such as 'This traditional British pub serves delicious food, including locally sourced meats and vegetables. They offer a range of pub classics like fish and chips, as well as more modern dishes like lamb rump with sweet potato mash'. None of the descriptions really sold the pubs to me. One of the descriptions put the pub concerned in the wrong village. But it was no worse than asking Google the same thing, and without adverts (yet).

archagon 4y ago

I recently asked chatGPT for the best bánh mì restaurants in a particular city, and it gave me a great list of answers... except half those restaurants weren't actually in the city.

Gigachad 4y ago
Yeah it sometimes works but isn’t great for this kind of question it’s absolutely perfect for questions about something you’d read on Wikipedia. It’s like having a subject matter expert with you. It’s sometimes wrong but the value is still immense.