Google's AI made up a fake cheese fact that wound up in an ad for Google's AI, perfectly highlighting why relying on AI is a bad idea
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honestly LLMs are about a thousand times more useful than Google at this point. Every week i try googling and get nothing but spam results.
for example just yesterday i was searching for how to reclaim some wasted space on one of my devices. so i searched on Google and tried 8 different pages that were ad-riddled hell holes.
i gave up and spent 10 seconds with an LLM and got the answer i needed. i will admit that i had to tell it to quit bullshitting me at one point but i got what i needed. and no ads.
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It's an obsolete usage of "beg" that's now preserved only in that particular set phrase. One of English's many linguistic fossils, which you should learn more about before trying to critique anyone's language use.
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I had to tell DDG to not give me an AI summary of my search, so its clearly intended to be used as a search engine.
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"Intended" is a weird choice there. Certainly the people selling them are selling them as search engines, even though they aren't one.
On DDG's implementation, though, you're just wrong. The search engine is still the search engine. They are using an LLM as a summary of the results. Which is also a bad implementation, because it will do a bad job at something you can do by just... looking down. But, crucially, the LLM is neither doing the searching nor generating the results themselves.
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Well, you shouldn't be using Google Search, but that's a completely different conversation and the answer shouldn't (can't) be "let's just use LLMs, then".
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bing or duck duck go, too. i just say googling because it sounds stupid as shit to say anything else. DDG is my default search engine. kagi isn't much better, and comes with its own issues
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What do you mean its not generating the results? If the summation isn't generated, wheres it come from?
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I dont want to speak for OP but I think they meant its not generating the search results using an LLM
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Its a very different process. Having work on search engines before, I can tell you that the word generate means something different in this context. It means, in simple terms, to match your search query with a bunch of results, gather links to said results, and then send them to the user to be displayed
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then send them to the user to be displayed
This is where my understanding breaks. Why would displaying it as a summary mean the backend process is no longer a search engine?
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They should have kept quiet and let Google show how shit they are on live TV
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The LLM is going over the search results, taking them as a prompt and then generating a summary of the results as an output.
The search results are generated by the good old search engine, the "AI summary" option at the top is just doing the reading for you.
And of course if the answer isn't trivial, very likely generating an inaccurate or incorrect output from the inputs.
But none of that changes how the underlying search engine works. It's just doing additional work on the same results the same search engine generates.
EDIT: Just to clarify, DDG also has a "chat" service that, as far as I can tell, is just an UI overlay over whatever model you select. That just works the same way as all the AI chatbots you can use online or host locally and I presume it's not what we're talking about.
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Well, yeah, there are multiple things feeding into the results page they generate for you. Not just two. There's the search results, there's an algorithmic widget that shows different things (so a calculator if you input some math, a translation box if you input a translation request, a summary of Wikipedia or IMDB if you search for a movie or a performer, that type of thing). And there is a pop-up window with an LLM-generated summary of the search results now.
Those are all different pieces. Your search resutls for "3 divided by 7" aren't different because they also pop up a calculator for you at the top of the page.
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Yeah, for some reason I was thinking you were trying to say that bolting on widgets made it no longer a search engine.
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Trust butt, verify
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Fire burns and smoke asphyxiates, highlighting why relying on fire is a bad idea.
