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Did it do a Google search to learn all that up to date information?
by krupan 3mo ago
Did it do a Google search to learn all that up to date information?
- ssl-3 3mo agoAlmost certainly. That's OK, isn't it? Folks have been Googling things poorly for as long as there has been a Google to Google with, and now they have bots that do it on their behalf. The only issue is that the eyeballs stayed with the LLM, which allows it to hold a position that is potentially very powerful. This is particularly problematic with people who believe that computers are infallible.
- janalsncm 3mo agoThe point of this thread is that you cannot replace search engines with an LLM. If your example is an LLM using a search engine as a tool call, you have not replaced the search engine. It’s still there.
- 8note 3mo agoyou have changed the monetization model for the search engine though and maybe you really need the index and not the engine?
- ssl-3 3mo agoYes. An external search engine is still there, for now. But the user doesn't necessarily know anything about that, and they don't necessarily care. If/when the time is reached when external search engines are no longer present in the LLM loop, it seems likely that regular folks won't even notice this shift. As long as the answer-making machine keeps making answers, they won't have any reason to pay attention to this kind of back-end minutiae at all.
- krupan 3mo agoI love where this is going. Where does the answer-machine get it's answers in this scenario? How do we double check the answer-machine's answers?
- ssl-3 3mo ago> I love where this is going. Where does the answer-machine get it's answers in this scenario? It gets its answers from an archive of whatever used to be the Internet, and the last remaining publication: The Costco Flyer. > How do we double check the answer-machine's answers? That's the best part: We don't!