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Re:Princeton ‘AI Snake Oil’ authors say GenAI hype has ‘spir... by yeahwhatever10 on Thursday August 24, 2023 @01:07AM (#37245227)
I prefer search engines because I can look through multiple sources. LLMs just give an answer without context or what alternatives might be. They make it difficult to judge to validity of the response.
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Re:Princeton ‘AI Snake Oil’ authors say GenAI hype has ‘spir... by bsilvereagle on Thursday August 24, 2023 @01:27AM (#37245350)
perplexity.ai usually gives 4-6 sources that you can validate the response with.

As far as I can tell, it performs a search and then feeds the full text of the search results to an LLM and present a summary with citations.

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Re:Princeton ‘AI Snake Oil’ authors say GenAI hype has ‘spir... by theonlybutlet on Thursday August 24, 2023 @03:12AM (#37245943)
Not all questions need a variety of answers. If its good enough for your needs go for it. Saves some time searching.
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