• @[email protected]
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        46 months ago

        Which is still better than “elementary truths that will quickly turn into shit I make up without warning”, which is where ChatGPT is and will forever be stuck at.

  • @[email protected]
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    306 months ago

    GPTs natural language processing is extremely helpful for simple questions that have historically been difficult to Google because they aren’t a concise concept.

    The type of thing that is easy to ask but hard to create a search query for like tip of my tongue questions.

    • @[email protected]
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      336 months ago

      Google used to be amazing at this. You could literally search “who dat guy dat paint dem melty clocks” and get the right answer immediately.

      • burgersc12
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        26 months ago

        I mean tbf you can still search “who DAT guy” and it will give you Salvador Dali in one of those boxes that show up before the search results.

  • Madrigal
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    46 months ago

    Google isn’t a search engine any more. It stopped being that some years ago.

    Now it’s more accurately described as a shitty content feed that can be weakly filtered using key words.

    • @[email protected]
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      86 months ago

      Google intentionally made search worse, but even if they want to make it better again, there’s very little they can do. The web itself is extremely low signal:noise, and it’s almost impossible to write an algorithm that lets the signal shine through (while also giving any search results back)

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        16 months ago

        It would still be better if quality search (not extracting more and more money in the short term) was their goal.

  • @[email protected]
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    66 months ago

    This is a story that’s been rotating through the media since ChatGPT first released.

    I have an unpopular opinion about this headline after seeing the media cycle repeatedly downplay/ignore what Alphabet has been doing in response to OpenAI: Google the search engine is not in direct competition with ChatGPT, but Gemini is, and Alphabet is smart to keep simpler/time-tested search functionality central to Google rather than react strongly and scrap the keyword-based search bar that users understand are comfortable using - especially older users, but I think most people are starting to discover they have a use for both search and LLM chats.

    I think there are two product categories here, which first looked like they were going to converge in 2022-2024, but which are now slowly changing course as customers start to comprehend how both are necessary for different purposes.

    When I make chats in ChatGPT or Gemini or Claude etc, I am starting to plan them longitudinally so that I can use them over and over for a specific project or query type.

    When I turn to a search bar, it’s because I really want a proxy for a specific website or between me and whatever weird site has the answer to my specific question. It’s not that I want discussion and a chat about it, I just want Google’s card-like results with a website index I can read instead of that website’s stylized, animated web design on top or popups or malware.

    Every time I get sucked into a chat with Bing CoPilot(ChatGPT) when I really only had a web search query, I regret wasting my time talking to the LLM. Almost as a reflex, I’ve started avoiding it for most things now.

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    156 months ago

    I say, “Just search it.” Not interested in being free advertising for Google.

  • @[email protected]
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    16 months ago

    Is it weird I use ms copilot on a regular?

    Solely because it will cite its source on answers so I don’t have to sift through pages of results.

    • @[email protected]
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      16 months ago

      I use copilot expressly because I want my direct exposure to Ansible (such trash) to be as little as possible so as not to pollute my experience and unlearn programming, so I query, copy, validate and paste. Let its mind turn to jello, and spare mine!

    • @[email protected]OP
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      46 months ago

      I mean I get wanting this feature, but there is a dosen alternatives that more privacy respecting (Brave, Perplexity etc)