Comment by tavavex
2 years ago
I'm not OP, but I still feel kind of confused by people saying that ChatGPT is a 100% equivalent replacement for search engines. I'm not saying that LLMs aren't extremely impressive in their current stage, but that the use cases for the two are different, at least for me. In my mind, LLMs seem to be more useful for open-ended questions, problem solving, and formulating questions that wouldn't be suited for a search engines. But when I use Google, I'm usually not looking for answers, but specific places on the internet. If I need to find an email of a professor at my university, or a Github page for a project, or the official website of some software I need - I don't see why I'd need to replace Google with an LLM for it.
True but their use cases do intersect quite a bit. This is also ignoring the fact that chatgpt4 will actually use bing to search for things when it feels the need to do so. It will literally tell you when it does this. The LLM is no longer generating just text it is taking action well outside the boundaries of text generation.
Not 100% equivalent, but I definitely use more of ChatGPT than Google to solve any of my problems nowadays.