AI chatbots are not a replacement for search engines

Re:AI chatbots are not a replacement for search engines by RBerenguel on Sunday December 25, 2022 @05:40PM (#34132245)

Or you have asked correctly (or not, that's hard to tell from the onset) and has given you a non-factual answer. For example, I asked ChatGPT for what would be the best introductory book for a subject (added some more conditions to make it pretty clear-cut). It recommended me a book that sounded reasonable in title, with existing authors in the field… but the book didn't exist, at all.

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Re:AI chatbots are not a replacement for search engines by boredemployee on Sunday December 25, 2022 @05:59PM (#34132408)

Yes. It can even give name of research papers that never existed

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Re:AI chatbots are not a replacement for search engines by sitkack on Sunday December 25, 2022 @06:34PM (#34132694)

Research papers that probably should exist given the graph of knowledge that it has. I spent about 15 minutes searching for a non-existent paper (I knew this was probably the case when I started, by choice, by choice) and it turns out the title was a mashup of two other papers in the domain.

Same error a human might make if they read too many papers too quickly. Or went to a film festival and was asked to describe the plot(s) of the movies they watched.

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Re:AI chatbots are not a replacement for search engines by wombatpm on Sunday December 25, 2022 @11:52PM (#34134713)

Or you could be getting Calvin’s dad kind of answers:

Calvin:how do they know the weight limit for a bridge?

Dad: they drive bigger and bigger trucks over it until it collapses, then they rebuild the bridge and put up the sign

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