Thai food near me- chatgpt can give you a list of thai restaurants near you. IRS phone number has a definitive answer. Chatgpt can also spit out the golang documentation for cmp or even give you sample code.
It doesn’t know the Thai place’s current hours and doesn’t automatically surface a one-click link to their menu or reviews.
Why would I use ChatGPT to get the IRS phone number when I could use just as little effort typing it into a search engine and going to their actual .gov site with no risk of hallucinations?
When I’m using a new library, often I want an overview of the types and functions it surfaces. Why would I use an outdated and possibly halluciniated answer (that takes 30 seconds or more to generate) instead of clicking on the link in Google and having a nice document full of internal links appear instantly?
I don’t want to use the chatbot for the sake of using the chatbot. I want to use it when it’s better than what I already have. Sometimes it is better, and in those cases I use it a lot!
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Compare to Google/Bing which took about 5 seconds to type in the query and return these results.
But at least Americans have been getting stupider, on average. IMO, now I think you need to write at the 4th or 5th grade level.
I used it last night on a search that was roughly:
"find the top 10 restaurants in mid-town Manhattan that would be good for brunch with friends that have kids. Include ratings from NY Times and Yelp" Then I further refined with "Revise search to include 5 example entries and a highlight any known specials. Include the estimates walking time from <my location>. Provide a link to a reservations website."
It basically auto-populated a spreadsheet, that I could easily review with my wife. I would need to visit several websites to scrape all the information together in one place.
Always says 200 words where 30 would suffice.