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[Discussion] What's your thoughts on AI generated search engines compared to other ways to find information? (self.asklemmy)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Jaluvshuskies to c/[email protected]

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Like most of you, I used reddit as solely my only source for finding information. Looking to hear your guys' thoughts on this topic, and hopefully explain and share some knowledge in a more sophisticated manner than I can describe. (also, I hope this is an appropriate place to post?)

I have ran into this discussion a few times across the fediverse, but I can't for the life of my find those threads and comments lol

I believe that a non-corporate owned platform with user-generated information is most optimal, like wikipedia. I don't know the technicalities, but I feel like AI can't replace answers from human experiences - humans who are enthusiasts and care about helping each other and not making money. This is one of those things where I feel like I know the "best" way to find information, but I don't know the deep answers of why, and what makes the other platforms worse (aside from the obvious ads, bloatware, and corporate greed)

I don't know much about this topic, but I'm curious if you guys have actual real answers! Thread-based services like this and stack overflow (?) vs chatgpt vs bing vs google, etc.

EDIT: Wow, all your responses are fantastic. I'm not very knowledgeable about the subject so I can't really continue everyone's responses with a discussion, but I love and appreciate the insight in this thread! But I'll try to think of some follow up questions :)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

To generate answers is not to search answers. If I need a search engine, I want a search engine. If I need a text generation model I want a text generation model.

[–] Jaluvshuskies 1 points 2 years ago

I really like this. It's so true and I feel like you really hit the spot!

Can you elaborate on what defines a text generation model or give examples? Is it literally just like "write me a story about x"? I can't think of other real examples a TGM could be useful for

It's ironic, though. Google's search engine is pretty horrendous so we literally just use it for searching within reddit (since reddit's in-platform search is also poor, but for other reasons)