• Fizz@lemmy.nz
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    1 year ago

    I don’t get what generative ai could add to my browsing experience. How ever I do think it makes a good search engine.

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          1 year ago

          Google actually pulls results from web pages.

          you know how some smartphone keyboards predict the next word that you’re going to use, and you can form a comprehensible sentence that sometimes even makes sense? that’s what those language models do. they don’t actually search for anything, they just create sequences of words that sound probable.

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            1 year ago

            It seems that Bing chat bot searches then reads the results and gives you the answer.

            I know it’s basically predictive text but if the prompt contains a relevant info then the predictive text is likely to be the answer you’re looking for so it works well.

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          Yeah but you can tell from the context that search results are just a list of random web pages that maybe what Google says is bollocks.

          Google gives you a bunch of results and says “here, look at these”. LLMs confidently tell you things that they may have simply made up and present them as if they’re real.

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      1 year ago

      I’d use some sort of generative “find on page” or “summarize page” where I could have a quick Q/A without needing to read a long article.