Haven't used Google in years, but it sounds like it's getting even worse.
this post was submitted on 11 Jun 2023
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(Disclaimer: I dislike Google's current search ranking, and prefer other search engines for the most part)
I'm conflicted about this. On the one hand, I think generative ML-based answers can often be very useful and superior to the 'classic' search experience; on the other, I'm worried about the implications of using it as a full-on replacement for search, because that's basically what this is.
No thank you. How’s bing?
What do you mean? Bing is okay, for the most part.
I haven’t actually used Bing outside the fired up a new server situation.
I've been using LLMs a lot. I use gpt 4 to help edit articles, answer nagging questions I can't be bothered to answer, and other random things, such as cooking advice.
It's fair to say, I believe, that all general purpose LLMs like this are plagiarizing all of the time. Much in the way my friend Patrick doesn't give me sources for all of his opinions, Gpt 4 doesn't tell me where it got its info on baked corn. The disadvantage of this, is that I can't trust it any more than I can trust Patrick. When it's important, I ALWAYS double check. The advantage is I don't have to take the time to compare, contrast, and discover sources. It's a trade off.
From my perspective, The theoretical advantage of bing or Google's implementation is ONLY that they provide you with sources. I actually use Bing's implementation of gpt when I want a quick, real world reference to an answer.
Google will be making a big mistake by sidelining it's sources when open source LLMs are already overtaking Google's bard's ai in quality. Why get questionable advice from Google, when I can get slightly less questionable advice from gpt, my phone assistant, or actual, inline citations from bing?