Situation: people try to use these predictive text chatbots as search engines.
Problem: LLMs are not search engines. They extrapolate, interpolate, and approximate (so-called “hallucinations”) so they can always produce somewhat-plausible text completions.
Solution: Create a search engine so good at returning relevant results that even an LLM can make use of it… then go to significant lengths to plug that search engine into the LLM, preventing people from reading the search results directly.
Why not simply give people access to the search engine‽ People know how to use search engines!! This is the fifth time I've seen an article like this, and I'm still… baffled. It's https://xkcd.com/2021/ all over again.
Problem: LLMs are not search engines. They extrapolate, interpolate, and approximate (so-called “hallucinations”) so they can always produce somewhat-plausible text completions.
Solution: Create a search engine so good at returning relevant results that even an LLM can make use of it… then go to significant lengths to plug that search engine into the LLM, preventing people from reading the search results directly.
Why not simply give people access to the search engine‽ People know how to use search engines!! This is the fifth time I've seen an article like this, and I'm still… baffled. It's https://xkcd.com/2021/ all over again.