> I've tried replacing that flow with AI. It's slower to input, slower to get results, the results are opaque with regards to where they came from and how trust

> I've tried replacing that flow with AI. It's slower to input, slower to get results, the results are opaque with regards to where they came from and how trustworthy they are. You're probably not using it right. :) Its utility as "search" is only partially overlapping with search. It's most useful for that when you can describe what you want but not with clear enough terms to search for it. For research now, I'll try the search engines-- if I don't get hits I'll ask GPT4. Even if it gives me a wrong answer it'll almost always use terms that let me form a more useful search, though often it just gives right answers. Simple example, last night a old friend emailed me to ask if I remember the name of a 90s website that people used to brag about linux uptime and deployment. He couldn't find it via search. I remembered what he was talking about, couldn't remember the name, also couldn't find it via search. Asked gpt4 (by simply pasting in the email), it answered that it was probably the "linux counter". It's possible that with more guessing and grinding on search terms I might have hit the Wikipedia article on it, but GPT4 gave an immediate and accurate answer and included the URL which is what I needed to load the page up on the internet archive (as the site is long gone from the internet). The main thing GPT4 can't do is any kind of exact string search -- but unfortunately google more or less won't do that either anymore. In terms of figuring out what you intend from some vague text GPT4 usually does vastly better than google. I think my ideal tool would in parallel give me an not-very-interpreted classical search result and a state of the art LLM result. It seems that Google's bard works kind of in that direction, but their LLM seemed extremely dumb and hobbled when I tried it even compared to GPT3.5 and the search elements are google. ... so worst of all worlds. :)