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Comment by kangalioo | Hacker News Reader

People keep trying to use those LLMs as if it were a search engine but it's not. The value in ChatGPT is its faithful recreation of human common sense.

Use it to hold a conversation, to ask feedback on a text you wrote, to come up with ideas for something. Don't use it as Google and be dismissive when it's not the universal information retrieval tool it's not meant to be

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Right. It's almost as if your average human has little creativity, indeed less than what ChatGPT can demonstrate, even though that magical "creativity" is supposed to be the current Big Thing that separates us from the machines. (In a year, once everybody is forced to agree that LLMs exhibit real creativity, not just regurgitation of their training data, the next Big Thing is going to be something else.)

Yeah it's really the back-and-forth nature of it that I find to be a big improvement over searching-and-clicking.

Sooner or later most of the people will use it as a better replacement for Google search or Google on steroids. Before the advent of ChatGPT researchers especially, have been clamoring for better Google search with more contexts, intuitive and relevant feedbacks.

With the new ChatGPT (Plus) features introduction for examples web online search and plug-ins, ChatGPT has becoming a very powerful and viable better alternative to Google search.

"faithful recreation of human bullshitting" would be more accurate.

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