Subj : Re: ChatGPT?
To   : Ogg
From : Adept
Date : Wed Feb 15 2023 11:37:16

 Og> interesting.  It also seems that if could replace Google searches for
 Og> info.

I'm worried about that.

Not because of the tech -- the tech seems great, if flawed, as one would expect.

I'm worried about it because I do a variety of things in my searches to look for specific topics. E.g., keyword searching where I'm looking for very specific things, and absolutely want to know if there's just nothing in the database for what I'm looking for.

But search engines lean into, "well, this has _one_ of your words, so this is the best fit..." when I wanted a clean, "nope, this did not match well enough" so I could quickly iterate my search.

And with ChatGPT, or AI responses in general, there's a solid chance that it'll give me something that sounds good, but takes significantly longer to find out that it's not at all useful to me.

But I like the concept of the tool -- I just don't want it anywhere near a search engine, because it's a different tool, good at different things.

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