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ChatGPT won’t replace search engines any time soon

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Re: ChatGPT won’t replace search engines any time soon

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-written by company selling outdated search solutions

More from the same publisher: "Why touch screen phones won't replace clamshell phones any time soon" "Why electric light bulbs won't replace gas lighting anytime soon" "Why transistors won't replace radio tubes anytime soon" "Why drones won't replace fighter aircraft anytime soon" "Why electric cars won't replace combustion engines anytime soon" "Why linux desktop won't replace windows anytime soon"

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Re: ChatGPT won’t replace search engines any time soon

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...But ChatGPT's successors just might . I, for one, look forward to a future in which I can ask a digital assistant to find and summarize information on anything: "Computer, please find out how GPS works and explain it to me like I'm five years old." "Computer, what are the latest Covid-19 infection stats in my city?" "Computer, who is Claude Shannon and why is he important?" "Computer, what are the top three storie…

"Computer, please find out how GPS works and explain it to me like I'm five years old." ChatGPT: GPS stands for Global Positioning System. It is a way that we can figure out where we are in the world using special satellites. Imagine you are standing outside and you see lots of stars in the sky. Well, GPS works kind of like that, but instead of stars, there are satellites orbiting the Earth. These satellites are way…

The second half of that explanation is completely wrong though, isn’t it? There is no active signal being sent from your GPS antenna, no two-way communication.

Re: ChatGPT won’t replace search engines any time soon

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...But ChatGPT's successors just might . I, for one, look forward to a future in which I can ask a digital assistant to find and summarize information on anything: "Computer, please find out how GPS works and explain it to me like I'm five years old." "Computer, what are the latest Covid-19 infection stats in my city?" "Computer, who is Claude Shannon and why is he important?" "Computer, what are the top three storie…

"Computer, please find out how GPS works and explain it to me like I'm five years old." ChatGPT: GPS stands for Global Positioning System. It is a way that we can figure out where we are in the world using special satellites. Imagine you are standing outside and you see lots of stars in the sky. Well, GPS works kind of like that, but instead of stars, there are satellites orbiting the Earth. These satellites are way…

Did ChatGPT come up with this, or just rip it off from some place(s) without attribution?

Re: ChatGPT won’t replace search engines any time soon

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Just heard of this, so I logged in with my google account. The mistake it makes below is interesting. If this were a human response, I would assume a brain fart. Not expecting this type of error from "A.I." Me> Find the area of an ellipse with semimajor axis 5 and semiminor axis 4. ChatGPT> The area of an ellipse with semimajor axis 5 and semiminor axis 4 is 40π. You can find the area of an ellipse using the formula:…

The trick is to get it to show its work first and then calculate the answer. If it guesses the wrong answer first and then writes out the steps, it won't correct it.

This works: "Find the area of an ellipse with semimajor axis 5 and semiminor axis 4. Don't calculate the result until the end."

Re: ChatGPT won’t replace search engines any time soon

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True, but it does not have to. ChatGPT is it's own thing. It has functions search engines can never accomplish. You can say the same thing the other way around, "Why Search Engines won't replace ChatGPT?" The essence of what ChatGPT is is here to stay. We'll be seeing different flavors and it will be a big part of everyone's life.

Googler opinions are my own. (I know nothing about search). Google has LaMDA, which I could see them putting the answers from it into the knowledge box at the top of searches. There is no reason they have to be mutually exclusive, a search engine can provide answers from both. Google search is already an aggregation of multiple sources (images, web index, knowledge, shopping, video, flights, etc...). Adding another s…

Very true, they already have different sections in the results pages. There's no reason why they can't have one more. They can also use the box as a way to improve accuracy by having user vote on the quality of the result.

Re: ChatGPT won’t replace search engines any time soon

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I used (still use) Wolfram Alpha for the longest time. Back in the day, I was amazed that it could calculate a bunch of things that were way out of range for Google, etc. - and I always envisioned future search engines to be sort of hybrids, you'll get linked to the correct websites, but you can also ask them for whatever you want.

I don't need ChatGPT or similar models to replace search engines, I just want to use them in parallel.

I'm excited to see what Google does with their LaMDA model, now that Bing will incorporate ChatGPT.

Re: ChatGPT won’t replace search engines any time soon

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Just heard of this, so I logged in with my google account. The mistake it makes below is interesting. If this were a human response, I would assume a brain fart. Not expecting this type of error from "A.I." Me> Find the area of an ellipse with semimajor axis 5 and semiminor axis 4. ChatGPT> The area of an ellipse with semimajor axis 5 and semiminor axis 4 is 40π. You can find the area of an ellipse using the formula:…

Being not very good with numbers is one of the limitations of the current model. I imagine that in the future we will see integrations with a number of different tools to overcome these limits - WolframAlpha being the first one that comes to mind when talking about algebra and calculus.
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