• jjsearle@lemmy.ml
    6·
    2 years ago

    I find too often that ChatGPT will just make things up when asking things outside of the basics. Most of the time it is just quicker to search for official documentation and read it than relying on ChatGPT’s answers being right.

  • shufflerofrocks@beehaw.org
    4·
    2 years ago

    No lol

    ChatGPT sucks at proper answers in my experience, I tried using it to generate code or summarise documents for me, but it sucked at both.

    I can google well enough to almost always get what I need, but I can also see areas where google search is pretty shit right now - almost everything non-tech related that I google gives me a shit feed of SEO-keywords-bloated pages that have no actual content.

    Problem is, I don’t think any search engine still comes close to Google. I’ve tried DuckDuckGo, and it’s crap in my experience.

    I’ve had good luck with Yandex, but everything else is meh.

    What are your search engine recommendations?

  • Mindless_Enigma@beehaw.orgEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    Not at all. ChatGPT is a great tool for helping with brainstorming or creating a base for further work, but I wouldn’t rely on it at all for accurate answers to questions. ChatGPT’s main function is to create responses to prompts that look like real answers. It has no inclination to give you a correct answer and really has no clue what a correct or incorrect answer is. With the amount of effort you have to put in to research and verify the answer ChatGPT gave you is correct, you’re probably better off just skipping it and just doing the research yourself.

  • Terryble@beehaw.org
    2·
    2 years ago

    I write software for a living and I find that ChatGPT is useless if you’re just trying to explore for answers since it makes up answers a lot of times. For those instances (which is a majority of the time), I still end up using Google. It is pretty useful if you’ve already narrowed down the scope of your question and you’re just asking ChatGPT for suggestions on how to implement a solution that you had in mind.

  • TrippySquidsman@reddthat.com
    1·
    2 years ago

    I’ve definitely supplemented some of my queries with chatgpt questions however I’m very concious of hallucinations, so I’m pretty iffy with it right now.

  • cavemeat@beehaw.org
    1·
    2 years ago

    I moved to a non-google search engine. The problem with ChatGPT is that it sounds very plausible and truthful, but is often just making shit up.

    • noodlejetski@beehaw.org
      2·
      2 years ago

      it sounds very plausible and truthful, but is often just making shit up.

      I’ve seen someone call it “mansplaining as a service”.

    • Mersampa@beehaw.org
      2·
      2 years ago

      It helps to understand what ChatGPT is, and what it isn’t.

      ChatGPT does not understand anything you say. And it only does one word (technically part of a word, but to keep it simple) at a time.

      What it’s doing is it is guessing the most likely next word based on the words that have come before it. If you think of you phone’s keyboard, it probably has word suggestions for what to say next. ChatGPT is like hitting the recommended word over and over until it has an answer. It’s spouting words based on how likely the word is to come next. That is all.

      It uses advanced machine learning to do that, but whether it counts as AI is for the reader to decide. But it’s certainly not planning out a thoughtful answer for you.

      And that’s not even taking into account that the training data largely comes from the internet, the place where people continuously make shit up.

  • raj@lemmy.one
    1·
    2 years ago

    I prefer chatGPT, but it’s more.cumbersome to use on the phone than Google Assistant.

  • potcandan@lemmy.one
    1·
    2 years ago

    No but I started almost googling questions in a chatGPT format before stopping myself and realizing it’s a chatGPT question. Like for example asking a anthropology question about “what do we know about x species from x period?” I could google it but then do some clicking before I find my answer, or not. But chatGPT can give me something to then go ahead and google for more detail. One day soon google (or the worlds largest search engine) will = an advanced chatGPT. Also chatGPT is too early to be reliable, it’s wrong waaay too much and in the dumbest ways. If you don’t also use google to find sources you can verify stuff with you may end up looking really silly.

  • SolarSailer@beehaw.org
    0·
    2 years ago

    I switched to other non-google search engines (Brave Search/DuckDuckGo) before chatGPT.
    I use ChatGPT for ideas and suggestions, or when I get stuck on something. I treat it like a very knowledgeable person who usually gets their sources mixed up.
    ChatGPT points me in the right direction and that’s enough to dig deeper into whatever it is I’m trying to do.

    It’s excellent for pseudo-code, but in my experience it isn’t reliable with actual code.

    • Mersampa@beehaw.org
      1·
      2 years ago

      Yes! It’s who you ask when you aren’t sure what the idea, concept, or term is. Once you are armed with that information, use a proper search engine.

  • Barbarian@lemmy.ml
    0·
    2 years ago

    ChatGPT is absolutely NOT the right tool for the job if you want answers to questions. People need to understand that ChatGPT is not an AI. It doesn’t even have the concept of truth and fiction, let alone the ability to differentiate.

    It is a very sophisticated and very advanced autocomplete, using probabilities to attempt to predict the next word (or tokens, if you want to get technical) over and over again until probability says it’s done. It’s great for writing boilerplate documents without any facts it has to get right, creative writing (although it tends to produce very cliche text, understandably) and boilerplate code that’s been written millions of times before in its training data. Do NOT use it for anything where facts matter.