Something I've noticed about chat ais vs direct search is that because a chat ai is a blackbox, I can't dig into an answer's source at all.
With a search, I can read the wikipedia sources or I know the forum, or the poster. But with an AI, it's a dead end and it sucks. I can ask people how they know something, but AI training data is invisible. It doesn't know how it knows something.
There is this oracle with a 10% chance of being wrong, and if I'm not already an expert in what it's talking about I have no idea of when that is, and no way to dig into things. It's the only source of truth, and never gives me any other threads or rabbit holes to go down.
The only recourse is asking follow up questions, so you're trapped in there in a learning box entirely in the bot's control. Not sure how I feel about that. I like that google sends me other places so I get exposed to different things.
With a search, I can read the wikipedia sources or I know the forum, or the poster. But with an AI, it's a dead end and it sucks. I can ask people how they know something, but AI training data is invisible. It doesn't know how it knows something.
There is this oracle with a 10% chance of being wrong, and if I'm not already an expert in what it's talking about I have no idea of when that is, and no way to dig into things. It's the only source of truth, and never gives me any other threads or rabbit holes to go down.
The only recourse is asking follow up questions, so you're trapped in there in a learning box entirely in the bot's control. Not sure how I feel about that. I like that google sends me other places so I get exposed to different things.