Oh, I wasn't aware people seriously advocated that. I've heard people argue LLMs are approximate search engines and their results kernel-smoothed combinations o

Oh, I wasn't aware people seriously advocated that. I've heard people argue LLMs are approximate search engines and their results kernel-smoothed combinations of multiple terms in the index and the embedded prompt (and I can see some of that argument), but I hadn't seen anyone seriously argue they're pure info retrieval. That seems obviously wrong.