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OpenAI's ChatGPT Search Now Available as Google Alternative
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Probably not too much as Srinivas Narayanan (VP of engineering at OpenAI) said it's powered by Bing (and others)
He said "We use a set of services and Bing is an important one."
It kind of makes sense for them to use Bing since Microsoft has invested almost $14 billion into OpenAI
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Google has always been **** not because of “AI” but because sites full of Adsense cram the results. Adsense optimised sites have been a plague on the web since inception.
Wikipedia can’t get messed up there are thousands of mods and enthusiasts who correct articles within hours.
Use DuckDuckGo and if it is ever integrated with local LLMs like OpenWebUI or LMStudio pick that over ChatGPT.
I’m not lying to investors, ripping off people with crypto funny money, and mass stealing IP for personal profit, so he can speak about me as he wishes.
I use DuckDuckGo.
Since ChatGPT works fine, I use google way less, because it became a pain browsing and scrolling through all the fake search results. Probably a lot of people think the same and the more people use AI search the less ad revenue google makes.
Just no. Sorry but the whole AI search thing is a **** show.
Every time I run a Google search now I get a box at the top with some factoid which on at least half of the times I've used it been incorrect. And OpenAI aren't any better at this. I had it hallucinating references that don't exist the other day as well.
This is not a product. This is an affront to society, information and logic.
Every time I run a Google search now I get a box at the top with some factoid which on at least half of the times I've used it been incorrect. And OpenAI aren't any better at this. I had it hallucinating references that don't exist the other day as well.
This is not a product. This is an affront to society, information and logic.
Yeah, if the search engine part adheres to their usual guidelines, this will likely be a fairly common answer, I guess.
Yeah. Just hope it won't be rebranded as "Y, previously known as ChatGPT". 😂
Doesn't matter. Google is much better? The quality and prevalence of a product gives its name meaning. A good chunk of the population (at least in America) has heard of chatGPT.
I've been paying for Kagi search for the past year or so. Totally worth it.
It doesn’t matter for an AI startup. But yes, I think it absolutely matters if they want to become a household name and remain the dominant AI brand in the long run. And yes, google is MUCH better. It’s unique, short, easy, relevant, and fun. In fact it’s one of the single greatest brand names of all time—a total masterclass of marketing success.
ChatGPT sounds like a coupon code or some kind of leet word by comparison.
I would be more worried about the media companies OpenAI is partnering with. Especially since most news media companies are very politically biased these days I'm worried that search results showing the same crap we're already getting from the main stream media.
Asking stuff about smartphones etc is just not the strong point of an LLM.
It's better at questions like "can a sheep eat X" "what is the history of the colour red and it's dyes", "what are the pros and cons of Ragdoll cats", "what is the meaing of this phrase", "what are the scentific facts behind X"
LLM's are not good at things like "which is the best TV", "how many smartphones have a 6.1" display" etc
It's just about understanding what type of question it will give you a good and accurate answer to and what types of things are not a good idea to ask it.
Ah it’s trained on crap. Garbage in garbage out.
The problem is now information decay. I have piles of books here. I’m going to need them.
Apple might make their own search, because there are court rulings coming that may bar Google from paying Apple to make their search the default. It's would be a ton of revenue loss for them (not that it'll kill their business of course).
But I'm not sure I have confidence in Apple making a good search engine, they are years or decades behind already. Google treats search as their undisputed #1 priority, whatever #2 is, it's a long way behind. Apple will not have that kind of laser focus on a search product. Look how awful Siri still is after 13 years...I can use it to set timers or get the weather fairly reliably, but anything beyond that is dicey and almost always ends up with "I/m sorry" or "I can send some links to your phone", not to mention "I'm having trouble connecting to the internet" which happens constantly on all 3 of my HomePod Minis even though they all have an excellent wifi signal.
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