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After months of arguing against using ChatGPT, I now find myself using it for probably 80% of the things that I would previously have searched for. I also find

by ddxv 3y ago

After months of arguing against using ChatGPT, I now find myself using it for probably 80% of the things that I would previously have searched for. I also find it's much different, instead of spending 3 minutes trying to reword my DDG search, I have a fairly useful conversation learning things. I keep my skepticism up as I get more specific and detailed, but I somehow started trusting it, and haven't missed search at all... I wonder if Google / DDG will start to notice this drop in searches or not. Also, I find myself using GitHub search a lot, it returns actual code someone was using, which is always helpful.

pelicon 3y ago
If you like ChatGPT for search, I highly recommend checking out Perplexity, it is a search engine that uses the same model but can provide quite good information with source citations. https://www.perplexity.ai https://www.perplexity.ai
- stranded22 3y ago
  Annual perplexity pro user here. I love it.
- danielbln 3y ago
  I've started subbing to Perplexity.ai recently and it's been great. All the benefits of interacting with an LLM with the grounding truth injected from search results. It's not perfect and sometimes falls on its face, but I use it way more than regular search these days. As a paying customer you can switch the underlying model to GPT4 or Claude2, which is nice.
elicksaur 3y ago
Can you share an example chat you felt was more useful than what you would expect to get from a search session?
- dangus 3y ago
  I am not the person you’re replying to but what is great about ChatGPT is how it parses meaning and doesn’t get confused by a large amount of results with similar wording but different meaning. Example: I wanted to know how tall Frank Lloyd Wright was. But if you google something like “Frank Lloyd Wright height” you’ll get a bunch of results about his buildings.
- danielbln 3y ago
  Very specific queries. "I run every single day, how have my heart and muscles changed in the last x years." "Can I pressure cook seitan in two sessions, so I cook it along with my soup as well?" "The character from my book gets a little annoying in chapter 16, does that get better (no spoilers.)" Either of these would have you wading through tons of random websites to collect the necessary information, and in the case of the cooking questions through a load of noisy SEO'd cooking websites, ugh. Wgen asking the LLM I get a specific answer to my exact query. It comes with uncertainty (hallucination etc.) but either it's a topic where fuzziness is irrelevant or a search enabled LLM grounds the truth and gets rid of most hallucinations. Either way, sifting through search results is not what I want to do if I want a specific question answered, that's a machine's job.

by ddxv 3y ago

pelicon 3y ago

If you like ChatGPT for search, I highly recommend checking out Perplexity, it is a search engine that uses the same model but can provide quite good information with source citations. https://www.perplexity.ai https://www.perplexity.ai

stranded22 3y ago
Annual perplexity pro user here. I love it.
danielbln 3y ago
I've started subbing to Perplexity.ai recently and it's been great. All the benefits of interacting with an LLM with the grounding truth injected from search results. It's not perfect and sometimes falls on its face, but I use it way more than regular search these days. As a paying customer you can switch the underlying model to GPT4 or Claude2, which is nice.

elicksaur 3y ago

Can you share an example chat you felt was more useful than what you would expect to get from a search session?

dangus 3y ago
I am not the person you’re replying to but what is great about ChatGPT is how it parses meaning and doesn’t get confused by a large amount of results with similar wording but different meaning. Example: I wanted to know how tall Frank Lloyd Wright was. But if you google something like “Frank Lloyd Wright height” you’ll get a bunch of results about his buildings.
danielbln 3y ago
Very specific queries. "I run every single day, how have my heart and muscles changed in the last x years." "Can I pressure cook seitan in two sessions, so I cook it along with my soup as well?" "The character from my book gets a little annoying in chapter 16, does that get better (no spoilers.)" Either of these would have you wading through tons of random websites to collect the necessary information, and in the case of the cooking questions through a load of noisy SEO'd cooking websites, ugh. Wgen asking the LLM I get a specific answer to my exact query. It comes with uncertainty (hallucination etc.) but either it's a topic where fuzziness is irrelevant or a search enabled LLM grounds the truth and gets rid of most hallucinations. Either way, sifting through search results is not what I want to do if I want a specific question answered, that's a machine's job.