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ChatGPT is fundamentally something like AI-assisted interactive Web search because it was trained on text from the Web. In my opinion, "AI-assisted interactive

ChatGPT is fundamentally something like AI-assisted interactive Web search because it was trained on text from the Web. In my opinion, "AI-assisted interactive Web search" absolutely a killer app for LLMs, and will be a huge step forward in our ability to quickly consume the huge amounts of information out there. The fact that it's a "chat" is useful only insofar as the chat history gets absorbed into the prompt, and it allows you to advance the search incrementally and iteratively using natural language queries. The fact that the output is designed to feel "chatty" to some extent is immaterial. Chatbots, as you point out, are not a killer app, and fixating on the "chat" aspect as anything other than a means of interactivity is missing the point. People mostly don't want or care about simulating real human interactions in general. They just want more useful, more efficient interactions with their machine. Any perception of chattiness is best used in order to serve that goal, and should not in my opinion be a goal in and of itself. That said, it's a shame that Ask.com isn't running this, otherwise we'd be able to call it Ask Jeeves 2.0. Now we have... Bing Chat? Poor Cortana!

vba616 4y ago
What does ChatGPT have to do with "AI-assisted interactive Web search"? Did they roll out something new?
- spullara 4y ago
  Bing is basically ChatGPT-4 with search retrieval integrated.
  - vba616 4y ago
    Bing has essentially stopped working for me, and I'm mad. Mad because (pre ChatGPT) I had been getting better results for a little while than with Google, and also mad because I expect Google will soon screw up their search engine in the same way. What I'm referring to is that popular queries suddenly seem to have a much larger "shadow" making it impossible to search for anything remotely similar. This was already a degenerative disease degrading Google search, but what I assume is the AI infusion to Bing seems to have taken it to a new level.
- dragonwriter 4y ago
  > What does ChatGPT have to do with “AI-assisted interactive Web search”? Did they roll out something new? The GPT-4-powered Chatbot agent in Bing. But I think GP is pointing out that, since the models underlying ChatGPT (both GPT-3.5 and GPT-4) are trained on a wide corpus including substantial content from the public web, even when they aren’t integrated into something like the new Bing, they are inherently a kind of (potentially somewhat stale) AI web search on their own.

vba616 4y ago

What does ChatGPT have to do with "AI-assisted interactive Web search"? Did they roll out something new?

spullara 4y ago
Bing is basically ChatGPT-4 with search retrieval integrated.
- vba616 4y ago
  Bing has essentially stopped working for me, and I'm mad. Mad because (pre ChatGPT) I had been getting better results for a little while than with Google, and also mad because I expect Google will soon screw up their search engine in the same way. What I'm referring to is that popular queries suddenly seem to have a much larger "shadow" making it impossible to search for anything remotely similar. This was already a degenerative disease degrading Google search, but what I assume is the AI infusion to Bing seems to have taken it to a new level.
dragonwriter 4y ago
> What does ChatGPT have to do with “AI-assisted interactive Web search”? Did they roll out something new? The GPT-4-powered Chatbot agent in Bing. But I think GP is pointing out that, since the models underlying ChatGPT (both GPT-3.5 and GPT-4) are trained on a wide corpus including substantial content from the public web, even when they aren’t integrated into something like the new Bing, they are inherently a kind of (potentially somewhat stale) AI web search on their own.