Comment by aerhardt
10 months ago
> an instance of this from a few days ago.
Bro I've been using LLMs for search since before it even had search capabilities...
"LLMs not being for search" has been an argument from the naysayers for a while now, but very often when I use an LLM I am looking for the answer to something - if that isn't [information] search, then what is?
Whether they hallucinate or outright bullshit sometimes is immaterial. For many information retrieval tasks they are infinitely better than Google and have been since GPT3.
I think this is related, but I'm more interested in the factual aspects than the subjective ones. That is, I don't disagree there's also arguments over "are LLMs good for the same things search engines for" but it's more of the more objective "they do not search the web" part. We need to have agreement on the objective aspects before we can have meaningful discussion of the subjective, in my mind.