Comment by AlexCoventry
2 days ago
It seems to me that I can research and study much faster as a result of using ChatGPT's Deep Research, FWIW.
2 days ago
It seems to me that I can research and study much faster as a result of using ChatGPT's Deep Research, FWIW.
It depends. If fed with high quality content (e.g. publications) results are decent and mostly on the positive side of time savings/value. Try to ask it a simple question, such as "pros and cons of these two smartphones" and it will suck up marketing bullshit from the internet and give you a convincing, but useless answer. I was really surprised to find this out, because I've been mostly living in the "scientific research" bubble, where it performs good to excellent and really saves time.
Only for information available on the Internet…
Which is most information...
That really depends on the domain. In fields like manufacturing, resources extraction, and pharmaceuticals most of the valuable information is locked behind corporate firewalls.
I have not found this to be the case, at all. An incredible amount is still locked up in paper, even in 2025.
Why do you think that? I collect books, mainly published from 1850s to 1980s, and it's not uncommon that they only occur in library listings and sometimes Goodreads when I search for information about their authors and history. This holds for some english language literature as well, but more so for books in other languages.
The Internet is basically a young, small portion of writings in english, as far as I can tell.
Do you think all of the industry expertise for niche markets is published on the internet for free? Why would any company do that?