<div dir="ltr">I find Google searches to be more informative - and, more importantly, accurate - than asking ChatGPT. There's also the issue of availability of recent information, which is frequently a concern for the topics I search on.<div><br></div><div>It could theoretically someday be the case that AI searches become more useful than manual Web searches. That day, for me, is not today.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Aug 10, 2023 at 6:19 AM BillK via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Since Google appeared many years ago, whenever any question arose, the<br>
response was "Just Google it".<br>
A search typically produced many (perhaps hundreds) of web search<br>
results which had to be read to find the answer. If you were lucky the<br>
answer was near the start of the list.<br>
<br>
Now AI has enhanced search engines (including Google with Bard) to use<br>
AI to generate an answer to the query immediately.<br>
Usually attaching the list of search results as well, so that you can check<br>
the results.<br>
<br>
This was just demonstrated by Spike's query about plastic water bottle<br>
shrinkage.<br>
The AI enhanced search produced the answer immediately.<br>
<br>
You can check it for yourself.<br>
Copy and paste the query:<br>
Why do sealed plastic water bottles lose water and shrink over time?<br>
<br>
There are now many AI search engines. A few are:<br>
<<a href="https://bard.google.com/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://bard.google.com/</a>><br>
<<a href="https://you.com/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://you.com/</a>><br>
<<a href="https://iask.ai/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://iask.ai/</a>><br>
<br>
Microsoft Bing AI search insists that you use the MS Edge browser.<br>
AI is not yet available on Startpage and DuckDuckGo.<br>
<br>
BillK<br>
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