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It's amazing to me how low the bar is for AI to impress people. Really, 80% of the links were hallucinated, and that's somehow more useful than Kagi for [checks
by dingnuts 3y ago
It's amazing to me how low the bar is for AI to impress people. Really, 80% of the links were hallucinated, and that's somehow more useful than Kagi for [checks notes] finding real links?
Can you imagine if you did a search on Google and 80% of the results weren't even real websites? We'd all still be using AltaVista!
What on earth kind of standard is "1/5 results actually exist!" -- no comment on whether the 1/5 real results is even relevant. My guess: the real links are usually irrelevant.
- berniedurfee 3y agoThat’s actually been my experience with Google for a while. If I don’t explicitly specify “site:xyz” I get pages of garbage spam sites with no answers. Somehow ChatGPT seems easier to extract information from as I can just converse, test and repeat vs reading paragraphs of nonsense or skipping through a 14 minute YouTube video to get to incorrect or outdated answers. As I get more proficient with ChatGPT, it becomes more useful. It has bad habits I can recognize and work around to get what I need. It just feels far more efficient than using a web search tool ever was.
- smaudet 3y agoGoogle CEO wants to "make it useful" to everyone, however until its off the internet, it will never be possibly useful to me...
- vineyardmike 3y agoWell they’re releasing an embedded version for on-device use so sounds like it’s useful to you.
- JCharante 3y agoWell the reason why I didn't use google is because of a language barrier. I was using it to research packaging companies in a foreign country in a foreign language. In that case I really don't know what to type into Google. Other times its generated links are when I prompt it something like "I want to use redux but simpler" and it tells me about 3-5 projects with links to their sites and usually thats better.