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

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We really need you to stop posting so aggressively. If you can't or won't, we're going to have to ban you. You've been breaking the site guidelines frequently. That's not ok, and I warned you about this once recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33860364 . I don't want to ban you because you've also posted good things and if you'd simply follow the site guidelines you'd be a good contributor, but the current…

Thanks will do

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

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In 2001-2003, browsers crashed every 5 minutes then and Google's search didn't crash nor freeze nor slow it due to not being covered in ads and popups (having only 1-3 ad results at the top of the page with green text was a massive improvement). On tech forums back then, people would say, "is this even sustainable?" Microsoft search and the other ones were just "there was an attempt" tier and gave complete nonsense r…

Are you looking for the movie The Blues Brothers? (Not ChatGPT, I promise)

EDIT: Nah that's not it. It's way too old. And in mine the police crash for no reason before they even get anywhere near the scene of the crime.

I will skim thru it, but it doesn't look like the right setting. The movie was some generic action movie for some reason I remember Denzel Washington being in it but I looked through his movies from 2006-2012 and didn't find it. It was around that time. Setting had to be something like late 90s or later. Black SUVs dispatched and crashed for no reason at all. I have no idea what the movie was about but it was hilarious when this happened because IIRC it was a serious movie.

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

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I really wonder how the economics of running chatgpt for Bing's request will work. GPT is anything but cheap to run, IIRC, it requires more than four A100 GPU cards.

The bill is already largely footed by MS probably. OpenAI and MS are a partnership and they run on azure cloud.

I asked ChatGPT to emulate various OS's, including Linux and DOS. On a linux emulation, I had it curl whatsmyip.com. This bit was in the response:

    35.230.98.61
That's a google property. I wonder if it was trained on google's cloud.

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

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They might not replace them, but it fulfills a role that Google could do previously. Try to find out what type of a spring is in a spring clamp using google? "What type of a spring is in a spring clamp?" Or use whatever query you want. The top 10 results won't tell me the answer. Ask ChatGPT. It'll tell you (spoiler: it's a tension spring or a torsion spring. It's not a coil spring.) 8 out of 10 Google results are tr…

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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…

So, what you're saying is that "I'm feeling lucky"?

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

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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.

There are many ways companies might try to get some ad money in a ChatGPT setting: obvious and non-obvious product placement in the answer.

Q. Find me the best italian restaurant in New York. A. It's likely subjective - let's just sell it to the highest bidder.

Q. How to improve mental health? A. Give a reasonably good answer and probably mention: some say a solar lamp is good in winter months, there's a good one:

I somehow feel like people can be easily baited into buying something when you mix good, useful information with ads. Kind of like how reputed youtubers/niche influencers do product placement and make referral money.

All of this kind of makes SEO obsolete as ChatGPT ads might end up having more conversions than regular Google ads.

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

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They might not replace them, but it fulfills a role that Google could do previously. Try to find out what type of a spring is in a spring clamp using google? "What type of a spring is in a spring clamp?" Or use whatever query you want. The top 10 results won't tell me the answer. Ask ChatGPT. It'll tell you (spoiler: it's a tension spring or a torsion spring. It's not a coil spring.) 8 out of 10 Google results are tr…

Hmmm, ChatGPT doesn't seem consistent: Q: what type of spring is in a spring clamp? A: Spring clamps are typically made with a type of spring called a helical spring or a coil spring. These springs are made of wire that is wound in a spiral shape and are used to store energy and apply a force when they are compressed or stretched. In a spring clamp, the helical spring is used to provide the clamping force that holds…

And even after reading through first post and your post I had to do a double take to figure out it was wrong.

This is exactly why I don't bother with copilot - I tend to skim when something looks right.

Same thing when I'm reviewing code - I don't go into details - I just do high level sanity checks, if I'm familiar with domain I check for problems I anticipate, look for potential improvements where my experience matters.

If I have to go in depth I might as well do the thing on my own.

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