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LLMs open a whole new 'search' up for me, when you are not sure what you are searching for. For example, if you can't remember the name of a lib but you know ro
by martinald 2y ago
LLMs open a whole new 'search' up for me, when you are not sure what you are searching for. For example, if you can't remember the name of a lib but you know roughly what it does (or if you have misremembered the name of it). This is often very time consuming.
It's also far better than Google for recommending things (really anything) as you can use much more "precise" requirements for the recommendations and correct them, instead of getting at best some SEO spam.
It's obviously not good for stuff that requires real time updates like opening times, though I suspect with time OpenAI et al will combine their own search index + RAG to solve a lot of this.
The elephant in the room though is this is long term going to kill the incentive for a lot of content to be published. AI overviews have definitely reduced the amount of clicking through I do, even though I try and subconsciously 'support' sites by trying to find a link. But often it's right there.