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Re:Ask HN: Are we sure LLMs are that useful in a web search ... by goatlover on Thursday February 09, 2023 @12:11PM (#34727281)
Yes, but at least with a web search I can click on a different link. If chatGPT gives you a wrong answer, where is another answer to compare it to? It would be like if wikipedia replaced web search. It's usually a good source for summarizing things, but if you rely on it as The Source, then it becomes a problem.
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Re:Ask HN: Are we sure LLMs are that useful in a web search ... by JohnFen on Thursday February 09, 2023 @12:51PM (#34728108)
Not only that, but if it's a topic you don't know much about and you aren't seeing information from a variety of different sources, how would you even be able to know it's a wrong answer?
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Re:Ask HN: Are we sure LLMs are that useful in a web search ... by goatlover on Thursday February 09, 2023 @01:29PM (#34728842)
Yes, that also. Or it could be an unresolved topic with different possible answers, but how would you know if it just gives you one? If you ask about the measurement problem and it says decoherence has solved it because MWI, then you're getting short changed. There's a lot more to the debate.
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