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Re:AI chatbots are not a replacement for search engines by est on Sunday December 25, 2022 @10:04PM (#34134113)
> The problem with ChatGPT as a replacement for Google is that it was not designed to produce accurate facts

But chat bots could be designed to do that, no?

Are there any siginificant technical barrier to prevent so?

Re:AI chatbots are not a replacement for search engines by tsimionescu on Monday December 26, 2022 @04:38AM (#34136149)
Yes: accruing a large and diverse enough training set where true and false facts are correctly labeled. The GPT models require enormous amounts of text to be trained on, so manually adding true/false labels to every part of every sentence is impossible (and automatically doing it would require exactly the AI we are trying to train).

A revolution in this area would require some entirely new training algorithm that can reach GPT-levels of fidelity while using magnitudes less training material. An even bigger GPT model trained on even more text is not going to do much in approaching a solution to this problem.