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It already replaced search engines. So much easier to write the question and explore the answers until it is solved.
by nunobrito 3y ago
It already replaced search engines. So much easier to write the question and explore the answers until it is solved.
- suyash 3y agowho would have thought that few years ago, just goes to show that a Giant like Google is also susceptible when they stop innovating. The real battle is going to be fought between these two as Google's business is majorly dependent on search ads.
- orbital-decay 3y agoIt rather created new hybrid search engines, like perplexity and phind.
- adr1an 3y agoTrue. Although the training is on a snapshot of websites, including q&a like stackoverflow. If these were replaced too, where are we heading? We'll have to wait and see. One concern would be centralization/ lack of options and diversity. Stackoverflow started rolling AI on its own, despite the controversial way it did (dismissing long time contributors); it might be correctly following the trend.
- JTon 3y agoAgreed except ChatGPT (3.5 at least, haven't tried 4) is unable to provide primary sources for its results. At least when I tried, it just provided hallucinated urls
- mhb 3y agoTry it. There's a world of difference.
- JTon 3y agoIn general or for this specific application (linking primary sources)?
- whimsicalism 3y agoi love gpt-4 and i find chatgpt useless. so there is a big difference
- nunobrito 3y agoGPT4All is capable of providing sources. This seems more to be a legal defense mechanism by ChatGPT than a technical obstacle.
- mmahemoff 3y agoTook me a while to realise I can just type search queries into ChatGPT. e.g. simply "london bridge history" or whatever into the chat and not only get a complete answer, but I can ask it follow-up questions. And it's also personalised for the kinds of responses I want, thanks to the custom instructions setting. ChatGPT is my primary search engine now. (I just wish it would accept a URL query parameter so it could be launched straight from the browser address bar.)
- nunobrito 3y agoYMMV. For my case on software development, I don't even look on stackoverflow anymore. Just type the tech question, start refining into what is needed and get a snippet of code tailored for what is needed. What previously would take 30 to 60 minutes of research and testing is now less than a couple of minutes.
- reitanqild 3y agoAnd I don't have to wade through Stack Overflow and see all the times mods and others have tried to or succeeded in closing down very useful questions.
- aduitsis 3y agoFortunately it's not like StackOverflow has been used as training data for LLMs, right?
- TeMPOraL 3y agoWell, yes. Point is, GPT-4 read the entire StackOverflow and then some, comprehended it, and now is a better interface to it, more specific and free of all the bullshit that's part of the regular web.
- devjab 3y agoI know there are a lot of google programmers out there, but was using search engines for programming ever a good idea? Don’t get me wrong, I’ll look up how to do absolutely simple things every day but I basically always look in the official documentation. Which may be why I’ve been very underwhelmed by GPT so far. It’s not terrible at programming, and it’s certainly better than what I can find on Google, but it’s not better than simply looking up how things work. I’m really curious as to why it hasn’t put a more heavy weight on official documentation for its answers, they must’ve scraped that a long with all the other stuff, yet it’ll give you absolutely horrible suggestions when the real answer must be in its dataset. Maybe that would be weird for less common things, but it’s so terrible at JavaScript that it might even be able to write some of those StackOverflow answers if we’re being satirical, and the entire documentation for that would’ve been very easy to flag as important.
- layer8 3y agoThis is funny, because I find it much less cumbersome to type a few search terms into a search engine and explore the links it spits out.
- mrits 3y agoIt depends on the subject but search engines are on the decline. With so many fake website written by AI I can only see it get worse. The most extreme I can think of is when I want to find when a show comes out and I have to read 10 paragraphs from 5 different sites to realize no one knows.
- layer8 3y ago> The most extreme I can think of is when I want to find when a show comes out and I have to read 10 paragraphs from 5 different sites to realize no one knows. I found that you can be pretty sure no one knows if it’s not already right on the results page. And if the displayed quote for a link on the results page is something like “wondering when show X is coming out?”, then it’s also a safe bet that clicking that link will be useless. You learn those patterns fast, and then the search is fast as well.
- mrits 3y agoI don't disagree but having to have a learning phase for patterns sounds a bit like people clinging to an old way of things.
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