AI chatbots are not a replacement for search engines

Re:AI chatbots are not a replacement for search engines by dilap on Sunday December 25, 2022 @05:14PM (#34132019)

ChatGPT can give you websites, too, if you ask:

"What's a good social website for people of a technical bent"

It recommended: Reddit, Hacker News, Stack Exchange, Quora, LinkedIn, ResearchGate, GitHub

That's a pretty good list!

Tried the same search on Google, and the first result was some spammy site "15 top social networks," #1 being facebook. Not very useful.

I definitely think chatbots will replace many uses of search engines. It's already way more useful for lots of stuff for me.

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Re:AI chatbots are not a replacement for search engines by gukov on Sunday December 25, 2022 @05:20PM (#34132079)

Another way to look at ChatGPT is it being a smart RSS reader. It's the way it discards all the WordPress layout junk giving you just the meat in a text format.

The biggest advantage Google currently has is their massive indexing ability. ChatGPT is oblivious to something that just happened (ie was posted) an hour ago, a day ago, heck, a month ago.

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Re:AI chatbots are not a replacement for search engines by williamtrask on Sunday December 25, 2022 @05:19PM (#34132061)

It’s not that google can’t do this. It’s that the incentives prevent it. Chatbots may be worse because there’s a plausible way to only give you one answer and to really make it feel real.

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Re:AI chatbots are not a replacement for search engines by bg24 on Sunday December 25, 2022 @06:47PM (#34132812)

When the incentives are 70% of your revenue, very difficult to change track in 1-2 years.

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