I know this was offered as a bit of joke. But it prompted a really thought-provoking discussion and seemed to me to suggest a genuine paradigm shift in search or information organization. It is a novel way to extract a useful signal from all the noise. It brought to my mind "Dr. Know" from Spielberg's AI movie:
Here's another recent Show HN that demoed a new search engine:
Show HN: Goopt – Search Engine for a Procedural Simulation of the Web with GPT-3
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30443738
I know this was offered as a bit of joke. But it prompted a really thought-provoking discussion and seemed to me to suggest a genuine paradigm shift in search or information organization. It is a novel way to extract a useful signal from all the noise. It brought to my mind "Dr. Know" from Spielberg's AI movie:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0QkgAuEPbk
Will the signal be a good one? It will need to get better and inevitably will. The thing that worries me: will it even matter?