I have one dedicated browser window with 3 tabs for: GPT, Bing, Bard. I've been experimenting for the last 2 months, with increasing frequency. I tend to paste

I have one dedicated browser window with 3 tabs for: GPT, Bing, Bard. I've been experimenting for the last 2 months, with increasing frequency. I tend to paste the same question into all 3, and compare the answers. None is a clear winner. As others have pointed out ad nauseum, you have to understand what these tools are doing: they are stochastic parrots that are optimized to generate the most plausible answer possible. Plausible and Correct have large venn diagram overlaps, but they are not strictly synonymous. It's interesting to me why these tools are actually useful. I've been at this for a while. I used to use the web in general, and various community forums to help advance my knowledge. Comp.lang.* and mailing lists were so helpful. And they were very approachable (low cost and multiple client tools). In it's early days, before the organization nazis showed up with more focus on rules than helpfulness, StackOverflow was that way. But at this point the internet feels like one of the tourist bazaars when I visited Jamaica (loved Jamaica). It used to feel more like a public library. Various attempts to monetize/fund various things, an explosion in options, have all rendered the internet far less usable. It used to be so much easier to find answers to things I know are possible, but don't remember the exact syntax for (e.g. "how do I test for directory existence in a bash script?"). To some degree, I view the rise of these GAs as a condemnation of what the internet has become from its original aspirations.