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Re: Comparing Google and ChatGPT

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It's great, until people realize GPT-3 will generate answers that are demonstrably wrong. (And to make matters worse, can't show/link the source of the incorrect information!)

Fair point, but Google is also exactly as confidently wrong as GTP. They are both based on Web scrapes of content from humans after all, who are frequently confidently wrong.

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post #16

It's great, until people realize GPT-3 will generate answers that are demonstrably wrong. (And to make matters worse, can't show/link the source of the incorrect information!)

Exactly, i talked to ChatGPT and it gave me a lot of wrong information in an authorative tone. I consider it dangerous as-is.

Actually, the name of the entity is ChatGTP. It is stands for General Translation Protocol, referencing translation from the AI code and source information into a more generally understandable English language.

(joking here)

Re: Comparing Google and ChatGPT

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It's great, until people realize GPT-3 will generate answers that are demonstrably wrong. (And to make matters worse, can't show/link the source of the incorrect information!)

Fair point, but Google is also exactly as confidently wrong as GTP. They are both based on Web scrapes of content from humans after all, who are frequently confidently wrong.

Sure, but Google at least presents itself as being a search engine, composed of potentially unreliable information scraped from the web. GPT looks/feels like an infallible oracle.

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post #28

What are the engineering and considerations for serving this sort of model to billions of queries a day? Do the economics of a gpt-as-a-search-engine work?

>Do the economics of a gpt-as-a-search-engine work?

Davinci costs 2 cents for 1000 tokens (≈600 words), so no.

Re: Comparing Google and ChatGPT

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These are addressing two very different concerns but framed as a singular one. Google is first and foremost a search engine - it searches the web for answers, the key point being the answers need to exist on the web. The other is a machine learning model tasked with deriving answers, and sometimes - if not very often answers will be provided in an authoritative tone whilst being completely and utterly incorrect. Goog…

> Google is first and foremost a search engine - it searches the web for answers

Sure, but Google tries to provide instant answers - i.e. questionably accurate machine-generated extracts of content they've borrowed from other sites - so you could argue they've fallen behind the cutting edge for questionably-accurate machine-generated extracts of stuff found on the internet.

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Fair point, but Google is also exactly as confidently wrong as GTP. They are both based on Web scrapes of content from humans after all, who are frequently confidently wrong.

Sure, but Google at least presents itself as being a search engine, composed of potentially unreliable information scraped from the web. GPT looks/feels like an infallible oracle.

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Like Google can't acquire this or something similar and include it in its results if it's actually a threat.

On top of the fact that Google has probably the most advanced AI R&D program in the world. When these tools are eventually deployable to the masses, Google will probably be the one doing it.

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Generative models will surely change the shape of the web. If a major effect of freely sharing something is to enable a big AI company to ingest it and show it to their users without attribution, people are going to share things less freely. Which will then mean that these models won’t be able to generate new things as well.

I don’t know exactly how that will manifest, but something of that shape seems to be on the way.

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