I just tested ChatGPT Search vs. Google – here's the results • Hacker News Board

Re: I just tested ChatGPT Search vs. Google – here's the results

#31

Post by balencpp » Sat, Nov 02, 2024, 11:50 AM UTC

OutOfHere wrote: post #28

impulser_ wrote: post #15

This is an obvious Apples vs Oranges comparison. You should be comparing ChatGPT Search vs Gemini since they both are LLM that query a search engine for results that generates a text response based the the text it has been provided. Google Search is an actual search engine and querying it like it is an LLM is going to give you bad results. A good example of this is the query, What is Apple’s current stock price, and…

> vs Gemini The issue is that the free version of Gemini remains really bad. Perhaps the paid version of Gemini is better, but that's not available to most people.

Their flagship models are available for free for everyone: aistudio.google.com. You have the option to enable "search grounding" to get the same thing as ChatGPT Search.

Re: I just tested ChatGPT Search vs. Google – here's the results

#32

Post by jmathai » Sat, Nov 02, 2024, 1:08 PM UTC

lpolingb wrote: post #18

jmathai wrote: post #5

I introduced my wife to ChatGPT. A week later she told me “ChatGPT is everything I always wanted Google to be”. It was a much more enlightening comment than any detailed review or analysis could provide me. That quickly, over a decade of built up user engagement vanished.

Key word here is “introduced”. Check back in after some extensive use. Have her interact with it in earnest about a subject she is an expert in.

Her feedback comes from using it primarily for her interior design business in which she is already an expert.

She wants answers to her questions and seems satisfied with the quality of answers she receives. It was news to her that ChatGPT isn't always factual - but let's face it, neither are random web pages.

She wants an answer she can trust 90% and arguments that it's not 100% miss the tradeoff many people are likely willing to make by accepting some inaccuracy in exchange for time.

Re: I just tested ChatGPT Search vs. Google – here's the results

#33

Post by mergisi » Sat, Nov 02, 2024, 2:41 PM UTC

[dead]

Re: I just tested ChatGPT Search vs. Google – here's the results

#34

Post by beej71 » Sat, Nov 02, 2024, 6:05 PM UTC

nunez wrote: post #29

beej71 wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This was absolutely my take, as well. I was wondering if I was looking at some Tom's guide knockoff. And I still don't trust ChatGPT with facts. I do use it as a starting point for research, but then I switched to [my preferred paid search engine] to verify and correct.

Are you the same beej that made those network programming eBooks from forever ago? If so, thank you very much for those!

I am! You're welcome. :)