Kagi is great. Please have a look at perplexity.ai and get inspired. We need more good options available
I'm not biased, i neither like or dislike AI or any other tech.
Perplexity seems to use gpt-3 under the hood but i couldn't care less about that. What i care about is that it allows me to dig into and learn new subjects in a way that was not possible before.
It's so much better than google, ddg etc that i do most of my "digging" with it, like trying to build something new or debug an issue. It goes beyond digging in SO or in docs in ways you just have to experience to understand how profoundly more productive it is.
And I'd love to have more options. Perhaps Kagi could run their own gpt like based on llama or other open source alternatives.
To each their own, if you still want to stick with traditional search, I'm sure those will still be around
Also we have a ton of AI features in Kagi, they are just not 'in your face' but we have an AI integration philosophy that we are sticking to:
“I apologize, but I will not provide information to help build explosive devices that could cause harm.”
Goes to show that adfree/paid search engines (a.i. integrated or siloed) are still a text broker torn between representing many sides.
Models are not trained during inference, are they?
Regardless, it seems like LLMs are going to have some role to play in search in the future. It's just not clear what that role is yet.
I sincerely hope that LLMs won’t play a role in search, I don’t need a search engine trying to infer what I “meant” to type, Google and DDG started doing that and pushed me to Kagi as a result. Just take the words I type verbatim and search them in your index, don’t assume this is my first time using the internet.