LLMs can not yet replace good web search. There are whole categories of queries whera a LLM is more or less helpless with. Think navigational queries, shopping /reviews, location aware, 'grep the web' style queries just to name the few.
For example:
nyt crossword
cheap iem reddit
starbucks near me
M7FFALP
Likely, a good search product in the future will be a combnation of both.
have you tried this on phind.com? it'll create multiple queries to find and organize data and it's very good and saying it doesn't know something rather than give a BS answer.
You should know by now that LLMs will and do lie in subtle ways that are not apparent to non-experts. Using them to understand complicated concepts is a great way to "learn" incorrect information. To be fair, the same can be said for humans, but humans are worse at bullshitting.
I really just need to converse about a topic for more inquisitive-ness and to form structured thoughts
It will tell me if I’m conflating concepts, before bullshitting about the ways theyre different. Thats fine, my blind spot would have been that I was conflating a concept for the next decade.
In that regard its the same or better than a human
I don't need it to be the source of truth, I need it to be conversational. It can make urban legends just like a person does, I don’t care, just give me a way to talk about a concept and decide if I want to learn more and it does that extremely well
I usually only need to understand a concept, not understand if the personnel and company names it made up actually exist
everything else I use google for are just addresses
so I’m wondering if a paid search engine would shift my behavior back to search engines, or if that ship has just sailed