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Large Language Models are not a search engine

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Re: Large Language Models are not a search engine

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Except they kinda are? LLMs are just word models built from a corpus of the internet. There are examples of GPT3 regurgitating reddit comments in full given the right prompt. Certainly I find LLMs replace a lot of searches for me and google/microsoft is right to eat its own breakfast to get ahead of it.

Google has become so horrible that an LLM that is right 80% of the time is better than a search that has links to pages that are 90% spam and ad covered pages.

Re: Large Language Models are not a search engine

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I did not understand why recently HN-referenced "which-key" does not work at emacs 25, but work at emacs 27. ChatGPT parsed the cryptic error message and suggested remedy, which was (defun string-empty-p (x) (= (length x) 0))

For us with lower level of comprehension, LLMs are literally brain extensions already.

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