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> Two main risks arise... First, the abundance of fabricated “studies” seeping into all areas of the research infrastructure... A second risk lies in the increa

> Two main risks arise... First, the abundance of fabricated “studies” seeping into all areas of the research infrastructure... A second risk lies in the increased possibility that convincingly scientific-looking content was in fact deceitfully created with AI tools... A third risk: ChatGPT has no understanding of "truth" in the sense of facts reported by established, trusted sources. I'm doing a research project related to use of data lakes and tried using ChatGPT to search for original sources. It's a shitshow of fabricated links and pedestrian summaries of marketing materials. This feels like an evolutionary dead end.

kenjackson 2y ago
It sounds like your use of AI is one of the worst uses. Standard semantic search would be much better and appropriate.
- HeatrayEnjoyer 2y ago
  How do you run a semantic search
- hodgesrm 2y ago
  No disagreement with that. My expectations were not high--but I was still surprised how bad it was. There are absolutely no guardrails.
- nis0s 2y ago
  If summarization and analysis isn’t the main use of AI, then what is?
- passion__desire 2y ago
  Existence of LLMs make Google search even more relevant for cross-checking rather than less relevant for deep research. Daniel Dennett said we should have all levels of searches available for everyone i.e. from basic string matching to semantic matching. [0] [0] https://youtu.be/arEvPIhOLyQ?t=1139 https://youtu.be/arEvPIhOLyQ?t=1139
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viraptor 2y ago
> tried using ChatGPT to search for original sources That's a bad idea, do not do that. Regardless of the the knowledge contained in ChatGPT, it's a completely wrong tool/tech - like using a jackhammer as a screwdriver. If your want original sources, then services like https://perplexity.ai https://perplexity.ai can do it. It's not even an issue with ChatGPT as such, it was never intended for that - that's why they're trying to create search as well https://openai.com/index/searchgpt-prototype/ https://openai.com/index/searchgpt-prototype/
- hodgesrm 2y ago
  Perplexity.ai looks a lot better. Thanks for the link. (edited: typo)

kenjackson 2y ago

It sounds like your use of AI is one of the worst uses. Standard semantic search would be much better and appropriate.

HeatrayEnjoyer 2y ago
How do you run a semantic search
hodgesrm 2y ago
No disagreement with that. My expectations were not high--but I was still surprised how bad it was. There are absolutely no guardrails.
nis0s 2y ago
If summarization and analysis isn’t the main use of AI, then what is?
passion__desire 2y ago
Existence of LLMs make Google search even more relevant for cross-checking rather than less relevant for deep research. Daniel Dennett said we should have all levels of searches available for everyone i.e. from basic string matching to semantic matching. [0] [0] https://youtu.be/arEvPIhOLyQ?t=1139 https://youtu.be/arEvPIhOLyQ?t=1139

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viraptor 2y ago

> tried using ChatGPT to search for original sources That's a bad idea, do not do that. Regardless of the the knowledge contained in ChatGPT, it's a completely wrong tool/tech - like using a jackhammer as a screwdriver. If your want original sources, then services like https://perplexity.ai https://perplexity.ai can do it. It's not even an issue with ChatGPT as such, it was never intended for that - that's why they're trying to create search as well https://openai.com/index/searchgpt-prototype/ https://openai.com/index/searchgpt-prototype/

hodgesrm 2y ago
Perplexity.ai looks a lot better. Thanks for the link. (edited: typo)