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1. Fridge+xe[view] [source] 2023-02-08 21:56:17
>>i13e+(OP)
I do not understand the appeal or gpt-powered searches.

Most of my web searches are for looking up specific things, to find the specific link(s) that contains the information I need. These aren’t searches that are going to be made better or faster by an ML model-they’re not natural language queries, they’re just a bunch of terms.

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2. ghshep+Mh[view] [source] 2023-02-08 22:09:40
>>Fridge+xe
Depends on your use case - if you are coding, or doing constraint analysis - 75+% of the time it's a single request, single answer, and you are done. The other element with ChatGPT is if you aren't happy with the initial answer for some reason - you can engage in a conversation with it, provide some guidance, and will adjust it to suit specifically what you are interested in. I've found about 50% of my google searches just go straight to ChatGPT these days. Hallucinations are the only real problem I've had - but over time you start to become cynical about the truth of anything factual - asking for unit tests helps quite a bit when coding - double checking any math is also important.

I do agree though, that without citations to the original source - any "Facts" that ChatGPT offers are absolutely untrustworthy.

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