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brucethemoose@lemmy.world 1 week agoGemini Pro is quite good, probably better than GPT-4, but it’s still terrible at doing a search engine’s job reliably, and Google is undoubtedly using an older, cheaper setup here.
It’s mind boggling that Google shoved this into search the way they did.
uis@lemm.ee 1 week ago
I don’t think goal of Gemini was search. There are better tools for search, including AI tools.
TheLoneMinon@lemm.ee 1 week ago
Could you recommend any? I’ve been using ChatGPT and it’s been helpful, but I’d love something more specific to the task.
As an example, there was some kind of event happening downtown near me last night. Really bad traffic and roads closed. I tried figuring out what was going on. Checked the city’s site, the Facebook page, googled around, couldn’t find anything. I asked ChatGPT and it told me it was the annual Christmas parade that started at 7:30, it’s route, and where I could catch it from where I was. Say what you will about AI, but that was unbelievably helpful.
uis@lemm.ee 1 week ago
Depends on how deep you want to integrate AI. It ranges from learn to rank(AKA AI sorting) and transforming user input(ha! pun!) to vector search(transforming user input to special format) and learned index(AI search). And then there are whole area of AI, LLMs specifically, wchich sits on top of search engines: retrival-augmented generators(search-and-generate).
TheLoneMinon@lemm.ee 1 week ago
Thanks so much for the material! I’m going to comb through these tomorrow.
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Speaking as a local LLM enthusiast, it’s still unreliable and is “googling” something behind the scenes to get answers. And it’s not like a human poking around, internally it’s looking at a wall of webpages and “hoping” to hit something right.
But to answer your question Perplexity is similar, and perplexica is the open source equivalent. There are also researcher “agent” scripts that will script LLM calls.
TheLoneMinon@lemm.ee 1 week ago
I get that, and for sure always need to verify it’s results, but SEO has turned looking information up into a slog of AI articles and lists.
I very rarely am able to find the answers to my questions anymore. And I say that as someone who has always joked that my job was a professional Googler. Whereas I used to be able to search key words or vague snippets of something from memory or lookup a hyper-specific question and find a solid answer within a couple minutes, now the first 2 pages are ads and “websites” with “articles” that are just vessels for more ad’s.
Using something like ChatGPT gets me a little closer to that old level of access. The hand that feeds I suppose…
Anyways, that’s for the tip. I’ll check it out!