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I haven't found the web search feature particularly useful or helpful. Far too many sites are blocking the ChatGPT bot. I also find that ChatGPT isn't getting a

I haven't found the web search feature particularly useful or helpful. Far too many sites are blocking the ChatGPT bot. I also find that ChatGPT isn't getting any better search results that I would if I searched for something myself. Quality of the results varies a lot too, and ChatGPT doesn't really seem to be able to distinguish between high quality content and not so high quality content. For software development I find that Phind is pretty good at combining search results with GPT-4 in a way that increases the quality of the result. Maybe OpenAI can convince the Bing team to index everything using their embeddings. If ChatGPT could also read the text directly from Bind instead of having to "surf the web" it would be able to consume several search results at the same time. In the future I could even see Bing et al. running an LLM over all text when indexing a page to extract info and stats like a summary, keywords, truthfulness, usefulness, etc.

osigurdson 3y ago
I feel that LLMs have the potential to reorganize the web. Instead of being ad sponsored, raw, high quality data will be priced and aggregated.
freedomben 3y ago
Same experience. 90% of the time I ask it to summarize something, it can't because it's blocked. At least it has the decency to tell me that it's blocked rather than just failing (which is what Kagi does. Love Kagi, but that's a minor improvement they could make). This is where I suspect Bard is going to be an absolute beast of a product. Ability to quickly and thoroughly consume a bunch of hits and find the best and summarize and such is something uniquely able for Google (and increasingly, Kagi)
lhl 3y ago
ChatGPT's web search is interminably slow and I've added to my custom prompt to not do web searches unless explicitly asked. However, I'd give Perplexity.ai a try - I've found it to be incredibly fast and useful (funnily enough, they largely also use Bing for search retrieval results) and if you pay for Pro (which I do now), you can also use GPT-4 for generating responses.
ringofchaos 3y ago
I also had some good experience woth default free version of phind. I was facing a issue in a python framework, which turned out to be a bug. Phind was able to pinpoint the github discussion where the issue was raised and also suggested workaround code example based on the github issue. No other free AI tools were able to do this.
rachele_ 3y ago
A workaround for this is to print the site as a pdf and upload it to GPT.

osigurdson 3y ago

I feel that LLMs have the potential to reorganize the web. Instead of being ad sponsored, raw, high quality data will be priced and aggregated.

freedomben 3y ago

Same experience. 90% of the time I ask it to summarize something, it can't because it's blocked. At least it has the decency to tell me that it's blocked rather than just failing (which is what Kagi does. Love Kagi, but that's a minor improvement they could make). This is where I suspect Bard is going to be an absolute beast of a product. Ability to quickly and thoroughly consume a bunch of hits and find the best and summarize and such is something uniquely able for Google (and increasingly, Kagi)

lhl 3y ago

ChatGPT's web search is interminably slow and I've added to my custom prompt to not do web searches unless explicitly asked. However, I'd give Perplexity.ai a try - I've found it to be incredibly fast and useful (funnily enough, they largely also use Bing for search retrieval results) and if you pay for Pro (which I do now), you can also use GPT-4 for generating responses.

ringofchaos 3y ago

I also had some good experience woth default free version of phind. I was facing a issue in a python framework, which turned out to be a bug. Phind was able to pinpoint the github discussion where the issue was raised and also suggested workaround code example based on the github issue. No other free AI tools were able to do this.

rachele_ 3y ago

A workaround for this is to print the site as a pdf and upload it to GPT.