I find myself using ChatGPT instead of Google now to look up much of my information

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DragoonKain

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Not all things, but many things. Like medical stuff I'll still go to medical sites. And very niche things. But say I want an explanation of something or I have a question that I'm not sure quite how to phrase it, or want to know random facts, ChatGPT is my go to. It saves typing your question into Google, clicking websites, scrolling down, finding the right information in an article or whatever. You just go on ChatGPT, ask the question, and boom you get the answer. Like I mentioned, I find it best for questions that I'm not quite sure how to ask it or what I'm referring to, and it has been on the money even with my vague questions. I had a science question a few months ago and I just punched in basically "What is it called when X, Y, Z happens" in a really unscientific way and it gave me the exact answer I was looking for.

I've heard people say it might not be 100% accurate or trustworthy with information, but so far everything it has given me has checked out as correct.

Curious if I'm the only one who uses ChatGPT as their resource for random info now instead of Google or other search engines.
 
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I do as well and it's great for a lot of everyday stuff that can quickly personalize just for you. Google can't replicate it. But seeing as I use it every day, I'm also impressed at how absolutely stupid it can be. Even the o-1 model can get stuck in a dumb loop where if you didn't know the subject matter, you would be fed a load of confidently wrong bullshit hah!
 
well they both essentially do the same thing. One just has a language model to formulate the responses rather than having to go through it all yourself.

i would say personally i'd use something like perplexity over Chatgpt purely cause it's easier to see what it's sourcing and you can follow the provided links.
 
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I have only tried the free version. I was relatively unsuccessful with my questions. Perhaps things have improved in the meantime. But I still use google and bing.
 
The problem is the AI can lie and absolutely not show it. If you know the subject you know the answer cannot be right. If you point it out the AI will go: "You are completely right!". Not really an answer if you are not an expert.
 
Pegasus Actual said:
Google results are trash nowadays. ChatGPT tends to give better information and even if the first result isn't great, it's very easy to follow up and iterate.
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This - google has enshittified its search results and has been the target of so much SEO bullshittery more often than not I find myself carefully scrutinizing each link and even then sometimes I land on some AI autogenerated garbage.
 
I hope you do not take any medical or decision making advice from the brainless prop. Bing and DuckDuckGo are far better search engines than Google nowadays.
 
I use it to punch up anything of length I have to write. It usually takes a few passes back and forth, but it has been immensely helpful for me. I recently was looking for a job and this was great for cover letter, thank yous, and correspondence bullshit I was apathetic about writing myself.
 
NeverYouMind said:
I hope you do not take any medical or decision making advice from the brainless prop. Bing and DuckDuckGo are far better search engines than Google nowadays.
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Thank god NeoGAF users provide expert advise!

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I'm too old-fashioned to use that and will probably keep that up for a long time. Don't see why I need it, as I simply enjoy figuring things out myself.
 
I also use ChatGPT, BingAI and Brave AI to do my searches, especially for information.
Google search has become worse with time. And the Youtube search is a complete turd.
 
cormack12 said:
I only use it for stuff I need to know from a language model, like it will only have a very specific answer.

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That's not even a real, 459 straws would never fit into a nose, and no search engine returns anything of the sort. That guy however may have held a record for most straws in his mouth at some point.
 
Haint said:
That's not even a real, 459 straws would never fit into a nose, and no search engine returns anything of the sort. That guy however may have held a record for most straws in his mouth at some point.
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Uhhh your mouth and nose are two doors to the same house. What are you even talking about?

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Ever since I started paying for the plus subscription, yes, I have been also. if you ask it something that it hasn't been trained on it will search 6 or 7 websites using Bing. It's amazing.
 
How much are you paying?

I'm so annoyed with Google for upping the price of YouTube premium. It's out of my reach now.
 
I just use the Copilot (which is ChatGPT) search on Bing these days.

It summarizes the results with Wikipedia-style notations and everything.
 
As ChatGPT itself admits, it does not double-check its responses: "I rely on my training to provide information quickly, but I don't have the ability to independently verify facts in real-time."

I also don't find it reliable and its biases distort reality for ideology.
 
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I work in Japan so I write in Japanese (bad but still I'm thinking how to write ). For the past months I just use chatgpt; "write this next sentence in Japanese using N3 to N2 level".

I kinda got worried and I decided to go office two times a week and have real communication lol
 
Today I was dealing with a computer issue and I tried doing a bunch of things as a fix and I wasn't quite sure which direction to go in. I'm pretty tech savvy but I was a tad stumped. I asked some friends of mine who are tech savvy if they had any ideas and they suggested the things I already tried. Ask some other people in a group chat and they recommended stuff that didn't work. So I went to ChatGPT and it gave me 5 possible fixes. One of them worked. And I was asking it questions back and forth and it was just as good as talking to a live tech agent.

I know people hate on ChatGPT but it's amazing man. Well, AI in general is.
 
DragoonKain said:
Today I was dealing with a computer issue and I tried doing a bunch of things as a fix and I wasn't quite sure which direction to go in. I'm pretty tech savvy but I was a tad stumped. I asked some friends of mine who are tech savvy if they had any ideas and they suggested the things I already tried. Ask some other people in a group chat and they recommended stuff that didn't work. So I went to ChatGPT and it gave me 5 possible fixes. One of them worked. And I was asking it questions back and forth and it was just as good as talking to a live tech agent.

I know people hate on ChatGPT but it's amazing man. Well, AI in general is.
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Completely agree. Pay no attention to the naysayers, progress of this nature always comes with cultural casualties and upheavals of industry, but A.I. is absolutely a net positive. Not saying there aren't drawbacks and that some things won't change for the worse, but it is absolutely an overall positive.
 
A.I. has been played up to be some sort of super brilliant intelligence but all it is is a brain dead ultra fast aggregator of other peoples info wrapped up in fancy language.

In 5 years people will be fed nothing but AI drivel and they will accept it as gospel.
 
DragoonKain said:
Today I was dealing with a computer issue and I tried doing a bunch of things as a fix and I wasn't quite sure which direction to go in. I'm pretty tech savvy but I was a tad stumped. I asked some friends of mine who are tech savvy if they had any ideas and they suggested the things I already tried. Ask some other people in a group chat and they recommended stuff that didn't work. So I went to ChatGPT and it gave me 5 possible fixes. One of them worked. And I was asking it questions back and forth and it was just as good as talking to a live tech agent.

I know people hate on ChatGPT but it's amazing man. Well, AI in general is.
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It's a transformative technology that can enhance your life in a multitude of ways. Have tech problems? Ask ChatGPT. Need interior decorating tips? Take a photo of your room and ask ChatGPT. Need help baking a cake? Ask ChatGPT. Want to learn a foreign language? Ask ChatGPT. Want to know some arbitrary tidbit about history? Ask ChatGPT.

Infinite knowledge in the palm of your hand and you can query your information as if you're chatting or talking with a friend.

And this is only the beginning.
 
It gets a lot of guitar stuff wrong, even simple strumming patterns and chord progressions aren't always correct. With search being so shit now I usually end up using old books for music.
 
Cyberpunkd said:
The problem is the AI can lie and absolutely not show it. If you know the subject you know the answer cannot be right. If you point it out the AI will go: "You are completely right!". Not really an answer if you are not an expert.
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This is one annoyances for sure.

Google has AI summary or debrief, I like that although a couple times it pulls really wrong info.

With Chatgpt I have to converse. With google I usually keyword search. So I still find Google more useful, for now. I never understood folks who used to entire question/phrase search on Google e.g. "what is the...." instead of just "population US". But with GPTs I'm doing that way more.
 
I have an hate\love relation with ai answering instead of normal google search, you can ask very specific quastions and it always has an answer avaialableso i don't have to search between forums and reddit to find exactly what i was searching.

But the ai answers sometimes are just umm...made up bullshits or completely different than what i asked.

But i don't use chargpt, just google search ai.
 
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Right into the trap. This is what AI was made for: have people using it for making life choices and thinking for them.

Guess what, at the other end of the line there's a guy just telling you what to do, whom to vote and even whom to date.
 
Cyberpunkd said:
The problem is the AI can lie and absolutely not show it. If you know the subject you know the answer cannot be right. If you point it out the AI will go: "You are completely right!". Not really an answer if you are not an expert.
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It's hard to navigate. As a tutor, it is better than any human teacher or course, I will ask it about anything from history trivia, to helping me code or learn languages, and it's godlike in doing so. As a learning tool, it is worth it's weight in gold and can teach anything to anyone.

But, as you said, sometimes it confuses things and makes things up. If there is something with few internet sources, it's actually quite ignorant and will present questionable things as fact. I notice it well when I ask it about little know video game stuff, for example how a rare game from the 80s that I know a good deal about was made, and it will often be completely wrong with it's answer.

And politically it has a tint.

But if you are trying to learn something, it's impossible to ignore it.
 
Saying what everyone else has already: ChatGPT's really useful, more useful than google nowadays for so many things because SEO is evil, but on the flip side it also just lies more often than I'd like, so I have to check its sources. Sometimes, as tests on obscure topics, I literally can't steer it to the correct answer without giving it up entirely.

I still regularly use "[question] reddit" in google searches because I don't think I have a choice but to narrow it down that much. A blacklist on ordinary google searches to filter out junk that regularly floats to the surface has helped though.
 
I'm glad ChatGPT finally ditched the list format answers. But oh my god, the new response pattern is so fucking annoying. It always has the same cadence & starts nearly every single message with some variation of "yeah, that makes sense."

I would like some push back & less ego rubbing, pls
 
I have been turned on to "perplexity" due to a free year of pro when using a Samsung phone, and it has been a game changer. It explains it's reasoning, charts information in a digestible format when appropriate, and plainly lists its sources so you can double check. I also appreciate it's "matter of fact" tone and it's quickness to call me out for faulty logic. I recognize other platforms can perform similar operations, but none do it as well out of the box. It really does a great job at inspiring confidence in it's answers.
 
Anyone else feeling like these AIs are getting worse unless you pay?
.I know gpt model has been constantly improving and evolving (previously wasn't connected to the internet).

But man the image generation just can't do anything these days due to all the restrictions. Then it's daily limits and plans etc etc. I'm guessing all AIs are basically like this now

Give us money or fuck off. I would love a good AI that made great images that was free lol.
 
Eirin said:
I'm glad ChatGPT finally ditched the list format answers. But oh my god, the new response pattern is so fucking annoying. It always has the same cadence & starts nearly every single message with some variation of "yeah, that makes sense."

I would like some push back & less ego rubbing, pls
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This is the worst part, for sure. I've done a significant amount of training on my instance of ChatGPT, encouraging it to give me more pushback, and be less confident in its own answers, double-checking things if it's not positive.

Surprisingly, that has worked decently well, and I get fewer false positives, and it speaks to me more curtly and natural. It still gets things wrong, though. Even when enabling "deep research", which is frustrating.
 
That is why Google as a company is shitting in their pants and their stock is in a funky position right now and their future doesn't look super bright. They're gonna have to make some real decisions here in the very close future.
 
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Donald mac Ronald said:
Anyone else feeling like these AIs are getting worse unless you pay?
.I know gpt model has been constantly improving and evolving (previously wasn't connected to the internet).

But man the image generation just can't do anything these days due to all the restrictions. Then it's daily limits and plans etc etc. I'm guessing all AIs are basically like this now

Give us money or fuck off. I would love a good AI that made great images that was free lol.
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Isn't it like, kinda expensive to run those servers tho
 
I've been de-googling my life in the last 5 years, but it's gotten easier because not only are some of the AI search sites just more useful....regular Google search sucks now.

I switched over to Brave Search and Duckduckgo, not just for privacy reasons, but Google would often censor news results or just put corpo news outlets first (MSNBC, Fox News, etc.).

Now basic Google search front-loads ads and other garbage making it actually harder to find things, and their AI search has no real advantage.

Same thing with Chrome, it's just a weak vanilla browser that tracks everything you do, and multiple other Chromium options (Brave, Vivaldi) are better.
 
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