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[-] Fizz@lemmy.nz 16 points 2 years ago

I don't get what generative ai could add to my browsing experience. How ever I do think it makes a good search engine.

[-] noodlejetski@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago

a "search engine" that hallucinates results, including but not limited to non-existent court cases.

[-] Fizz@lemmy.nz 1 points 2 years ago

And what? Half the shit on Google is completely wrong as well.

[-] noodlejetski@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago

Google actually pulls results from web pages.

you know how some smartphone keyboards predict the next word that you're going to use, and you can form a comprehensible sentence that sometimes even makes sense? that's what those language models do. they don't actually search for anything, they just create sequences of words that sound probable.

[-] Fizz@lemmy.nz 1 points 2 years ago

It seems that Bing chat bot searches then reads the results and gives you the answer.

I know it's basically predictive text but if the prompt contains a relevant info then the predictive text is likely to be the answer you're looking for so it works well.

[-] Bloonface@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago

Yeah but you can tell from the context that search results are just a list of random web pages that maybe what Google says is bollocks.

Google gives you a bunch of results and says "here, look at these". LLMs confidently tell you things that they may have simply made up and present them as if they're real.

[-] Fizz@lemmy.nz 1 points 2 years ago

Its an infant tech so there's obviously issues but if you go ask chat gpt how do I play poker you will get a short concise and accurate answer. In my opinion that's the strength of ai as a search engine. Sometimes I just want an answer to my question and don't want to dig through multiple webpages all filled with ads and hostile design.

[-] codus@leby.dev 2 points 2 years ago

I’d use some sort of generative “find on page” or “summarize page” where I could have a quick Q/A without needing to read a long article.

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