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By "what we had before", you probably mean normal google searching, right? If so, yea I feel like AI searching would be better than that. I honestly don't know what happened to google or when it stopped having quality. It would be interesting to watch a documentary or visual about how google changed over time, what changed it, and why it's searching experience is so poor now
Do you think that thread-based platforms that have user-generated content is the "best" source for information? (With the exception of SO, which I agree is probably superior for programming)
I haven't heard of perplexity.ai before, but I just tried it with the first recent issue that I had that came to mind, and I'm already not super impressed - I know this is literally one question so far, but it gave me a source for steam deck which my question wasn't about
This is an example of a question that someone would ask and need to provide info on what they already tried, setup details, more info about the situation, etc - and then people would comment likely with follow-up questions, or instantly know the solution from having to deal with it elsewhere. Obviously, this would go in the "troubleshooting" category, which seems that AI would have to redirect the user to rather than having the definitive answer to; at which point we're probably better off searching ourselves
Another recent thing I have had to look up, was various tricks to pull out a screw off the back of my mechanical keyboard that had been stripped and we couldn't get it out. Here's what I get when using perplexity:
Pretty good, my engineering S/O knows all sorts of tricks for this, and a few of them are actually listed here. However, I feel that I need to validate the legitimacy of the AI's response by going to the sources directly - which seems like an extra step that defeats the purpose of AI searching
Either way - it's interesting! And I think could be a useful tool in some ways. Also 100% agree on being done with the bullshit that is ads, bloatware, etc. Sorry for the wall btw lol