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Claude can now search the web

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Re: Claude can now search the web

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Post by danenania »

scoofy wrote: post #154
_2d30 wrote: post #39

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I don't think it should. If a user asks the AI to read the web for them, it should read the web for them. This isn't a vacuum charged with crawling the web, it's an adhoc GET request.

Many if not most websites are paid for by eyeballs not by get requests. A bot is a bot is a bot. Respect robots.txt or expect to have your IPs banned.

It may not be very long before the big majority of web searches are via AI. If that happens, blocking AI will mean blocking most people too.

You’d already be blocking me as I’d guess I now search via AI >90% of the time between perplexity, chatgpt, deep research, and google search AI.

Re: Claude can now search the web

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Post by _heimdall »

jimbokun wrote: post #296
exe34 wrote: post #262

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if a CEO can run 7 companies and still play monopoly with the ship of government, then maybe CEOs aren't really that useful.

Recent changes to Tesla’s stock price suggest otherwise.

They would suggest that only if the primary reason behind valuation changes is company performance and not political sentiment.

Re: Claude can now search the web

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Post by labrador »

wongarsu wrote: post #291
johntb86 wrote: post #215

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I've found that OpenAI's Deep Research seems to be much better at this, including finding an obscure StackOverflow post that solved a problem I had, or finding travel wiki sites that actually answered questions I had around traveling around Poland. However it finds its pages, they're much better than just the top N Google results.

Grok's DeepSearch and DeeperSearch are also pretty good, and you can look at their stream of thought to see how it reaches its results. Not sure how OpenAIs version works, but grok's approach is to do multiple rounds of searches, each round more specific and informed by previous results

My disgust and hatred for Elon Musk prevents me from giving Grok a fair chance. I realize this is my psychological problem. I own it, but as far as I can tell, I'm not missing much.

Re: Claude can now search the web

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Post by fragmede »

anal_reactor wrote: post #277
PickledChris wrote: post #220

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https://danluu.com/p95-skill/ Continues to apply

> And for games like Overwatch, I don't think improving is a moral imperative; there's nothing wrong with having fun at 50%-ile or 10%-ile or any rank. But in every game I've played with a rating and/or league/tournament system, a lot of people get really upset and unhappy when they lose even when they haven't put much effort into improving. If that's the case, why not put a little bit of effort into improving and sp…

Wait, but I'm on ProgrammerTok to improve my skills while I'm waiting for my code to compile!

Re: Claude can now search the web

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Post by wongarsu »

labrador wrote: post #304
wongarsu wrote: post #291

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Grok's DeepSearch and DeeperSearch are also pretty good, and you can look at their stream of thought to see how it reaches its results. Not sure how OpenAIs version works, but grok's approach is to do multiple rounds of searches, each round more specific and informed by previous results

My disgust and hatred for Elon Musk prevents me from giving Grok a fair chance. I realize this is my psychological problem. I own it, but as far as I can tell, I'm not missing much.

Purely on its technical merits Grok is pretty good and fills a niche in the selection of AI agents. But I can absolutely understand not wanting to use an AI owned by somebody who makes Nazi salutes and is dismantling the US government.
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