No lol
ChatGPT sucks at proper answers in my experience, I tried using it to generate code or summarise documents for me, but it sucked at both.
I can google well enough to almost always get what I need, but I can also see areas where google search is pretty shit right now - almost everything non-tech related that I google gives me a shit feed of SEO-keywords-bloated pages that have no actual content.
Problem is, I don’t think any search engine still comes close to Google. I’ve tried DuckDuckGo, and it’s crap in my experience.
I’ve had good luck with Yandex, but everything else is meh.
What are your search engine recommendations?
I hate that Google no longer allows literal strings. They keep removing features from their “core” product… You can put something in quotes now, and it will still substitute it with other stuff, including what it thinks are “corrected” or “other” spellings, which are often completely different from what you are actually searching for.
Here I was wondering why my results were shite
If I remember correctly, it all began when they wanted Google+ to become a literal name, so the operators had to go. Shame. Could have brought them back when they pulled the plug on Google+.
@shufflerofrocks @dl007 Have you tried using #Google’s #SGE?
Yeah,I tried pretty basic ,it often not answering question like chatgpt would, simply list the 5 links to questions,some question get answered in summary way…
@dl007 Hmm. I found it gave me some fair answers when I use it
I haven’t, I tried Bard but it was not great either, so didn’t bother with SGE.
Is it any good?
@shufflerofrocks #SGE is far better than #Bard. Although I don’t mind #Bard myself.
One nice advantage that #SGE has over both #Bard and #ChatGPT is that it largely refers to relevant up-to-date information. So if you want to ask such an engine about current events, #SGE is the best chat system to ask.
Ahh SGE does sound nice, I think I’ll give it a go, then. Thanks for the recommend
@shufflerofrocks You’re welcome!
I’ve tried them a while ago, but you get rate limited quickly if you use a VPN :(
Not at all. ChatGPT is a great tool for helping with brainstorming or creating a base for further work, but I wouldn’t rely on it at all for accurate answers to questions. ChatGPT’s main function is to create responses to prompts that look like real answers. It has no inclination to give you a correct answer and really has no clue what a correct or incorrect answer is. With the amount of effort you have to put in to research and verify the answer ChatGPT gave you is correct, you’re probably better off just skipping it and just doing the research yourself.
I find too often that ChatGPT will just make things up when asking things outside of the basics. Most of the time it is just quicker to search for official documentation and read it than relying on ChatGPT’s answers being right.
No. You can’t trust ChatGPT to give a reliable answer to anything, really.
I stopped using google much because of google. But no, I have not replaced searching on the web with a chat bot.
I moved to a non-google search engine. The problem with ChatGPT is that it sounds very plausible and truthful, but is often just making shit up.
It helps to understand what ChatGPT is, and what it isn’t.
ChatGPT does not understand anything you say. And it only does one word (technically part of a word, but to keep it simple) at a time.
What it’s doing is it is guessing the most likely next word based on the words that have come before it. If you think of you phone’s keyboard, it probably has word suggestions for what to say next. ChatGPT is like hitting the recommended word over and over until it has an answer. It’s spouting words based on how likely the word is to come next. That is all.
It uses advanced machine learning to do that, but whether it counts as AI is for the reader to decide. But it’s certainly not planning out a thoughtful answer for you.
And that’s not even taking into account that the training data largely comes from the internet, the place where people continuously make shit up.
You understand this much deeper than I do, thank you for the explanation
it sounds very plausible and truthful, but is often just making shit up.
I’ve seen someone call it “mansplaining as a service”.
ooh, i’m borrowing this, thank you
don’t scuff it!
I prefer chatGPT, but it’s more.cumbersome to use on the phone than Google Assistant.
Get an app called voice gpt. Allows you to talk to it.
google/siri/alexa and the other chat assistants integrating chatgpt would be super cool
No but I started almost googling questions in a chatGPT format before stopping myself and realizing it’s a chatGPT question. Like for example asking a anthropology question about “what do we know about x species from x period?” I could google it but then do some clicking before I find my answer, or not. But chatGPT can give me something to then go ahead and google for more detail. One day soon google (or the worlds largest search engine) will = an advanced chatGPT. Also chatGPT is too early to be reliable, it’s wrong waaay too much and in the dumbest ways. If you don’t also use google to find sources you can verify stuff with you may end up looking really silly.
No, I don’t see it as a suitable replacement for search.
sometimes I use it to write small blocks of code to save a BUNCH of time, also saves having to look through stack overflow >_>
I write software for a living and I find that ChatGPT is useless if you’re just trying to explore for answers since it makes up answers a lot of times. For those instances (which is a majority of the time), I still end up using Google. It is pretty useful if you’ve already narrowed down the scope of your question and you’re just asking ChatGPT for suggestions on how to implement a solution that you had in mind.
Not because of ChatGPT. But I encourage everyone to stop using Google and use one of the many other search engines. Break that Google supremacy.
No. It is a language model, not a wiki. A very good model which can output correct info, but there is no rigid mechanism to restrict it to only facts.
given that ChatGPT often gives you answers that sound right but are completely wrong, including - but not limited to - dates and causes of death of the very people who ask for biographical notes about themselves, made up articles, or made up legal cases, I don’t see how can anyone use it as a search engine replacement.
Imagine being told that you’re dead.
“You died on 2 August 1979. You were on a fishing ship at sea that sank with all hands.”
You are a computer programmer, you were born in 1985, you’ve never been within 200 miles of any body of water larger than a river, and come to think of it, you’ve always had a peculiar fear of oceans and lakes.
Did the AI make up a story of your death…or is it somehow aware that that’s the day your previous life ended?
mom come pick me up I’m scared
I use ChatGPT to discover new programming libraries that fit my requirements as it’s much easier to relay my requirements to ChatGPT than Google - e.g. a lightweight REST framework for C, not C++, that provides a steaming json parser.
Then ChatGPT lists suggestions and then I go look up those libraries and refine my chat if needed.
But for a fact-check it’s just much more reliable to use a search engine.
