Re:Google is freaking out about ChatGPT
by dpkirchner on Sunday January 22, 2023 @12:01PM
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It won't be wrong forever, there's a good chance they'll figure out how to evaluate sources and provide more useful results. And besides, the bar is low -- Google search results for some topics (e.g., programming related) are quite poor, filled with garbage and clone sites.
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Re:Google is freaking out about ChatGPT
by iLoveOncall on Sunday January 22, 2023 @04:20PM
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I think people saying that just don't understand what GPT is. It's not a database of knowledge that sometimes invents stuff. It's a statistical model that ALWAYS invents stuff. It will never be able to evaluate sources, because it doesn't use sources.
isn't "evaluating sources" the exact problem of web search that Google has been throwing billions of dollars at for many years, with an equivalently dedicated and motivated horde of SEO specialists on the other side? How is chatgpt going to easily solve that overnight?