Re:AI chatbots are not a replacement for search engines
by dragonwriter on Sunday December 25, 2022 @11:19PM
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> ChatGPT in its current form can’t replace google but plausible to think in its next few incarnations it will get there.
I don’t think it is.
> Why can’t it have a mode where it returns more rigorous results, and includes some system of links as citation?
Because it is a statistical text-generation model; connection of results to specific sources is fundamentally not part of the way it works, so it can’t just be asked to supply them. You’d need a fundamentally different approach to do that.
I don’t think it is.
> Why can’t it have a mode where it returns more rigorous results, and includes some system of links as citation?
Because it is a statistical text-generation model; connection of results to specific sources is fundamentally not part of the way it works, so it can’t just be asked to supply them. You’d need a fundamentally different approach to do that.