Using ML to determine the order of matches is absolutely fine, but to "digest" the internet and cook up an answer to what I'm looking for without proper sourcing? I do not want that. I don't want to try and guess what biases the language model might have. It's way easier for me to gauge the bias of another human, and for that, I need to be sent to a page a human has written.
(Of course, I realize that the "blog written by a bot" genre of writing is also becoming more convincing, making this whole thing harder...)
I already feel like google search sucks. It is partially googles fault partially the internets fault. The best source of information was and will always be forums full of knowledgable people having genuine conversations and everybody moved to discord because.... because... om I dont know and besides google doesnt get paid to elevate tiny ass forum websites in the search results.
It’s like the “AI” projects that spend all their time building a fancy sci-fi-looking robot body, ignoring the fact that how much of a “person” a robot seems has almost nothing to do with how physically anthropomorphic it is. Johnny 5 and Wall-e are proof enough that the mind, not the geometry of the body, is what’s important.