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It’s great if you understand what it is doing, it is really just search 2.0, but it’s a huge leap from search 1.0. It can’t do original research. But most human
by seanmcdirmid 3y ago
It’s great if you understand what it is doing, it is really just search 2.0, but it’s a huge leap from search 1.0. It can’t do original research. But most humans aren’t doing original research either.
- ben_w 3y agoI'm old enough to remember actual (web) search 1.0, e.g. AltaVista. LLMs today are a bit like Wikipedia circa 2004: simultaneously fantastic and yet also flawed and used for disinformation campaigns… and surprisingly bad at advanced mathematics.
- seanmcdirmid 3y agoI remember visiting DEC/Compaq WRL (which originated Alta vista) as a new grad student, and seeing my internship mentor at DEC SRC quit after my internship and go to a new search engine startup in Palo Alto that wasn’t Alta visa (it worked out really well for him). But ya, wiki was magic when it came out, and it got better over time, but still not perfect. This is similar, it is going to have an impact even if it has lots of flaws.