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Why not use Gemini which is as good or better and has a more recent knowledge cutoff?
by xnx 2y ago
Why not use Gemini which is as good or better and has a more recent knowledge cutoff?
- dyauspitr 2y agoPeople are just comfy with what they started with.
- cryptoegorophy 2y agoExactly. ChatGPT had the first movers advantage.
- xnx 2y agoRemains to be seen if they are a first mover like Blackberry was
- rfv6723 2y agoKnowledge cutoff doesn't matter because you are searching from web. Chatgpt is better because it gives links of source websites, so you can easily check them up.
- simonw 2y agoKnowledge cutoff isn't particularly relevant for search. I want an LLM that has access to a good search tool and knows how to use it. Gemini should be excellent here - it should have access to the best search index out there. But... it doesn't show me what it's searching for. This is an absolute show-stopper for me: I need to know what the LLM is searching for in order to evaluate if it is likely to find the right information for me. ChatGPT gets this right: it shows me the search terms it's using, then shows me the articles from the results that it used to generate the response. Until a few weeks ago I still didn't use it much, because inevitably when it ran a search I would shout at my computer "No, don't search for that! You'll get crap results". This changed with the recent release of o3 and o4-mini. For the first time I feel like I have access to a model with genuinely good taste in searching - it picks good initial searches, then revises those searches based on the incoming results. I wrote about that recently: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/21/ai-assisted-search/ https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/21/ai-assisted-search/
- yen223 2y agoI am pleasantly surprised by how significantly better the quality of ChatGPT's answers are, once Search + Reason are turned on. I used it for a project I'm working on, and it has given really good, well-sourced responses so far.
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