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imbiandneedmonynow t1_j1o494c wrote

Reply to comment by Gimbloy in Will ChatGPT Replace Google? by SupPandaHugger

the only problem right now is it gets some facts wrong, so until it doesn't spread misinformation, it would be a long time before then. Even if, some people would probably still use google just because they have the sources right in front of them

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PM_ME_A_STEAM_GIFT t1_j1pwqkr wrote

I think it would have to have internet access. If it did, why could it not be trained to research a topic? I think this could even be implemented on top of GPT. Tell it to give you a good Google search term, execute the search with a script, pass the result to GPT and ask which links seem like they could contain an answer. Then pass it the page content and ask if it can find an answer to the question. Of course it would take a lot of fine tuning and time to get it right, but I don't think it would be impossible.

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PM_ME_A_STEAM_GIFT t1_j1qfy6k wrote

I understand that ChatGPT cannot do research and that it's "just" a super advanced auto-complete. But I think it would be possible to "hook it up" to the internet in a very basic sense. It is capable of generating good google search terms (people even use it for image prompt generation). It is also good at extracting information from text. So in theory, if you allowed it to run web queries, it should be able to research a topic. Shouldn't it?

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