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This is something that I often say: general population confuse LLMs with a kind of new generation Google and expect it to be a knowledge database. When in fact
by greatgib 2y ago
This is something that I often say: general population confuse LLMs with a kind of new generation Google and expect it to be a knowledge database.
When in fact LLMs are good for some tasks but not for general knowledge. You can think of the cutoff date as a strong example about that. The knowledge in itself is just a base to have the ability to perform tasks.
In addition, for the example in this article, the person is testing the LLM on common chat service without dealing with settings that might be important like the temperature.
If you want the closest to an exact reply you should set the temperature to 0, but general public tools have an average temperature to be able to be creative when needed.
- SirHumphrey 2y agoI get that they are not a new kind of Google - but often, there is no alternative because there is no old kind of Google anymore. Search results have become so bad that using llms as at least a starting point is becoming more and more necessary. And if that is becoming a common opinion among people who are in practice professionals search engine users, imagine how bad it is for normal folk. They can be hardly blamed for using chats showed in their faces as a search engine.
- greatgib 2y agoNot perfect, but Kagi is quite Google in this regard.
- forgetfreeman 2y agoIf by "confuse" you mean are being actively lead to the conclusion, fine.