Google has consistently better search results than every other search engine so this doesn't seem true to me.
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There seems to be a pretty large faction - including me - that strongly disagree that Google's results are superior to other search engines. A lot of us prefer DuckDuckGo for most queries, and Kagi seems better if they can solve the pricing issue.
I don’t want a better search engine. I want answers. ChatGPT gives better answers.
How do you know if ChatGPT gives better answers? The only way you would know is if you know the answer before hand.
ChatGPT doesn't provide any information on how it got the answer it give you.
So you have to trust that it not feeding you complete bullshit.
Unlike Google who always provides a source link to where it got it answer so you can always research the answer yourself.
A few reasons.
1. I tested it by asking it to write Python scripts around an area where I consider myself to be a domain expert - AWS and the Python script was correct. I asked it to make changes and the changes were correct.
2. I gave it some Python scripts I wrote using the AWS SDK and it described what it did as well as I would expect in an interview. On top of that, I asked it why I would use it and the purpose of one of the methods. The method was trying to determine whether it was running from the root account or a delegate account.
It has to run slightly different depending on where it’s running from (Cloudformation stacksets). It answered the question as well as I would expect an interview candidate to.
The answers to my questions - write code to do $x was proven correct by the Python interpreter.
I also asked it generic AWS questions like I would in an interview. I knew the answers.
If you look for a random high school math word problem on the internet. It won’t just tell you the answer, it will tell you how it derived it.
I haven’t used it for random search. I had it open and was using it to generate code and documentation for a project I was working on.
It is still making showstopping errors on the word problems
Not that I don’t believe you. But can you give an example?
Answers being "better" doesn't necessarily mean they're more accurate. It could be that they're more useful, easier and quicker to iterate upon, take less time to come upon, etc.
Okay, but search != adtech, so they can produce good software outside of adtech.
Producing good software is not the problem. Producing a good profitable product that won’t be cancelled is.