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Google is the new MSFT. It won’t go anywhere, Windows is still a thing. But ChaGPT is a fundamental threat to its search business. It replaces Google for me 5

Google is the new MSFT. It won’t go anywhere, Windows is still a thing. But ChaGPT is a fundamental threat to its search business. It replaces Google for me 50% of the time. It is the natural language search engine people tried to build

dhosek 2y ago
I’ve seen too much inaccurate info from AI to have any trust in it. From declaring the Eiffel Tower the world’s largest Ferris wheel to claiming that hippos can be trained to perform complex medical procedures, it all seems a hot mess. You might say, yeah, but I can spot those mistakes, but can you really? I showed my fifth-grade son the result of asking if hippos were intelligent and the absurdity of the answer didn’t leap out at him. Now, consider something that’s more subtly wrong like an invented precedent in an AI-generated legal brief or a non-existent citation or citation that doesn’t support the claim and it’s all a disaster.
- karmasimida 2y ago
  If you connect ChatGPT to a traditional search engine, it will suffer much less such issues. It essentially digests 100 webpages for you, then render it in a single answer. For sure, hallucinations will always be there, but I don't think it will hinder its take over, the usage trumps its shortcomings
  - rs186 2y ago
    This. Yesterday I tried asking ChatGPT "Can an Amazon L6 software engineer afford a house in [location]", without explicitly using the search mode. It went to levels.fyi to look up salary and redfin to look up housing price (exactly how I would have done it myself), and gave me a reasonable answer that agrees with my own analysis, and is definitely much faster than clicking things around myself.
    - mitthrowaway2 2y ago
      How did you confirm that it queried levels.fyi and redfin?
      - karmasimida 2y ago
        Because it links it down there
agumonkey 2y ago
I used to think that the multidirectional aspect of GPT would be a killer feature. But really it's too flaky which remove the initial alleged value. And then results are too artificial or wildly too "imaginary", even asking to compile a list of books on a medical topic you'd get half false titles. Sadly.

dhosek 2y ago

I’ve seen too much inaccurate info from AI to have any trust in it. From declaring the Eiffel Tower the world’s largest Ferris wheel to claiming that hippos can be trained to perform complex medical procedures, it all seems a hot mess. You might say, yeah, but I can spot those mistakes, but can you really? I showed my fifth-grade son the result of asking if hippos were intelligent and the absurdity of the answer didn’t leap out at him. Now, consider something that’s more subtly wrong like an invented precedent in an AI-generated legal brief or a non-existent citation or citation that doesn’t support the claim and it’s all a disaster.

karmasimida 2y ago
If you connect ChatGPT to a traditional search engine, it will suffer much less such issues. It essentially digests 100 webpages for you, then render it in a single answer. For sure, hallucinations will always be there, but I don't think it will hinder its take over, the usage trumps its shortcomings
- rs186 2y ago
  This. Yesterday I tried asking ChatGPT "Can an Amazon L6 software engineer afford a house in [location]", without explicitly using the search mode. It went to levels.fyi to look up salary and redfin to look up housing price (exactly how I would have done it myself), and gave me a reasonable answer that agrees with my own analysis, and is definitely much faster than clicking things around myself.
  - mitthrowaway2 2y ago
    How did you confirm that it queried levels.fyi and redfin?
    - karmasimida 2y ago
      Because it links it down there

agumonkey 2y ago

I used to think that the multidirectional aspect of GPT would be a killer feature. But really it's too flaky which remove the initial alleged value. And then results are too artificial or wildly too "imaginary", even asking to compile a list of books on a medical topic you'd get half false titles. Sadly.