AI chatbots are not a replacement for search engines

Re:AI chatbots are not a replacement for search engines by dragonwriter on Sunday December 25, 2022 @08:59PM (#34133718)

> I don’t know if this is feasible or not, but having the chat bot also be able to respond with a subset of sources that it based its answer on would be a satisfying combination of both worlds I think.

But an LLM doesn’t look at particular sources, find relevant ones, and write a response based on them, it is a mathematical summation of the way all of its sources look as sequences of text, and produces a response that based on that fits with its prompt. Identifying which sources most influence a response isn’t merely something that they don’t currently do, its information that, AFAIK, there is no plausible way to recover from the model.

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Re:AI chatbots are not a replacement for search engines by imetatroll on Monday December 26, 2022 @03:13AM (#34135744)

After I commented I did do a little bit of thinking about the little that I know about this subject and realized that it probably isn't feasible to extract that data. Thanks for the comment because... you are right as far as I know. It is a bit disappointing to realize this though.

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