Re:Why ChatGPT won’t replace search engines any time soon
by cs702 on Saturday January 07, 2023 @03:03PM
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I agree (with minor caveats).
The important thing is that these AI systems are only going to get better over time.
IMHO, the early 2020's for conversational AI is akin to the 1980's for personal computers.
Re:Why ChatGPT won’t replace search engines any time soon
by IanCal on Saturday January 07, 2023 @03:27PM
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Absolutely, I totally agree. I edited my comment to add in more as I realised I'd not addressed that. It's surprisingly good right now, and given that it's useful that feeds into even more attention and money being spent on making it better.
Anyone not looking at chatgpt and thinking "what if this was even just a bit better? Or had better iterations or lookups?" is missing out on what I think is a revolutionary change coming probably sooner than people expect.
Edit
I think the direction of these models seems clear, and their capabilities however limited at the moment are outstanding. I think the best measure of performance is what the naysayers complain about. We've quickly gone from "actual gibberish that looks like paragraphs" to "yes but it loses track after a few sentences" to "yes it's kind of coherent but doesn't make sense totally" and are now at "it's like an overconfident human at many tasks, when they're only somewhat qualified in the area". People are pointing out where it's got an API call wrong, without it having any ability to look up the answer and see if the function actually exists.
I spoke to it about distributed computation design and discovered something new I can actually implement in my design.
I'm very excited about where this will all go because it seems useful now and I'd be very surprised if this is the best that it ever reaches.