Hard disagree. Most people already type questions into google when they want to know stuff. That's part of why Google's algo is so borked now for technical users, needing to use NLP to field complex search queries and not using straight PageRank.
It's way easier, IMO, to type the question into ChatGPT and it just gives me a paragraph or two about how to make a certain cocktail or cocktails with some arbitrary ingredients, about what Octopuses eat, or popular restaurants in my area, or even how to approach some microservices architectural problem. No need to go through five links where the author gives you their entire fucking life story to embiggen content for SEO, just to get a recipe
Even in it's current primitive state it's replaced search engines for me to a certain extent. Try asking it
If it reliably scrapes the net for relevant info and analyses it for me, that's it - end of search as we know it. I'll hardly ever use search again.
Are you sure you're replying to the right comment?
Leaving that aside, let's break it down:
> That's part of why Google's algo is so borked now for technical users
Does ChatGPT fix it for technical users? Or does it make it worse?
> No need to go through five links
Of course there's no need and also no way to know if GPT is hallucinating or not. You get one (maybe horribly wrong) answer.
> If it reliably scrapes the net for relevant info and analyses it for me, that's it - end of search as we know it.
For information scraped until September 2021? Yeah, it's very useful to find out information about the Russian invastion in Ukraine, for example.
> I'll hardly ever use search again.
I do X, I am human. Therefore, all humans do X. There may be a problem or two with that line of reasoning.
Don't get me wrong, I hate Google as much as the next person but search-search is not going away anytime soon. More like enhanced by GPT, like they do nowadays.
> Most people already type questions into google when they want to know stuff.
I do that because I want Google to search for a webpage where that question (or similar; how Google figures this out I do not know) is asked and hopefully there is an answer.
I’m under no delusions that the search engine can understand me.
Frankly I only use the “ask a question” format when I can’t think of the right set of keywords to get what I want.
> No need to go through five links where the author gives you their entire fucking life story to embiggen content for SEO, just to get a recipe
Not yet, but it's comming. The publicly available i.e. "free" LLMs are all going to start embedding ads, as others on this thread have already pointed out. I see no possibility that this will not happen.
It's way easier, IMO, to type the question into ChatGPT and it just gives me a paragraph or two about how to make a certain cocktail or cocktails with some arbitrary ingredients, about what Octopuses eat, or popular restaurants in my area, or even how to approach some microservices architectural problem. No need to go through five links where the author gives you their entire fucking life story to embiggen content for SEO, just to get a recipe
Even in it's current primitive state it's replaced search engines for me to a certain extent. Try asking it
If it reliably scrapes the net for relevant info and analyses it for me, that's it - end of search as we know it. I'll hardly ever use search again.