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

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Post by ben_w »

jakeinspace wrote: post #32
axiom92 wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"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.

Yes, but unlike most times it gets things wrong, this is probably appropriate for explaining things to 5 year olds.

(Also, the UK comedy quiz show QI made the exact same mistake).

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

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Post by waynesonfire »

kyrra wrote: post #15
WheelsAtLarge wrote: post #2

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…

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

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Post by chiefalchemist »

nowherebeen wrote: post #8

ChatGPT will flood the internet with articles like how SEO was used to hack search. It might not replace search engine, but search results will becomes even more irrelevant.

Which will ultimately drive more people directly to ChatGPT and just cut out the search middle-person.

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

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Post by shon »

It already has replaced Google for some of my needs. If I want a simple answer to queries like:

How to make a Sazarac

What’s a good waffle recipe

How do I change the O2 sensor on a 1982 911SC

I find ChatGPT issues perfectly good answers without all of the superfluous results, words, clickbait, and ads.

And for many other questions that are technical, medical, or trivial in nature I prefer its simple one-shot response.

Is it perfect? No. But neither is Google. I still at times neees to use quotes and booleans to get Google to bring me the results I want.

As a side note, Google is the Microsoft of 1997. Dominant and content. It doesn’t really want change. That’s why it’s time for a new challenger.

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

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Post by theSoenke »

Kibae wrote: post #39

I've been using ChatGPT to suggest me books similar to books I've liked and so far the results have been good. Many of the books that are recommended are books I've read and enjoyed so the remaining ones on the list are added to my reading list.

For me it suggested fictional book names that do not exist

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

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Post by [deleted] »

axiom92 wrote: post #25
cs702 wrote: post #6

...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…

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

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Post by x86x87 »

axiom92 wrote: post #25
cs702 wrote: post #6

...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 explanation is misleading. The satellites don't see you and don't care about you. They are beacons sending a radio signal (the beacons says: i'm satellite X and here is a timestamp). The receiver based on the known position of the satelites and the beacon signals received figures out your position on earth using math!

So the explanation is either: satellites and their position or give the full explanation. Not this regurgitation.

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

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Post by jki275 »

The problem with chatgpt is that I can't evaluate the source it used to learn the information to see if I think it's credible, and chatgpt can't give me any indication of whether it's credible or not, and its answer will be just as authoritative in tone if it's completely incorrect as if it's correct.

I asked it for a schematic to connect an i2c device to a microcontroller, it told me to directly connect the device to the microcontroller. I asked it if pull-up resistors were required, it said yes, and then drew what it called "pull-up resistors" (describing them correctly) incorrectly in series between the bus and the device.

I know that's wrong, but someone who doesn't really know what a pull-up resistor does or why they are there would be at least somewhat confused by that interchange, and would be misled into doing it wrong. Meanwhile, I can type in "i2c schematic" to google and get thousands of correct schematics back to look at.

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