Ask HN: Can ChatGPT replace Google?

I haven't tried laMDA, but how is ChatGPT different from laMDA?

Aren't they both models built for dialog?

Seems like Google is already building laMDA into Google Assistant which is a better application for a dialog model.

Like people said before, Google isn't meant to give you made up answers based on a trained model. It's mean to get you the best document with a link based on your query. Even when it give you a direct answer to your query is will still provide a link to where it got that information.

Lemme see. Google searches the web trying to match search terms. ChatGPT makes stuff up using fragments of text it's seen before. Um, I don't think so.

No. Because it's not a search engine. The point of search is links, not a plausible-but-unverifiable blob of text.

Let me open my last few searches from today:

- checking the release data of a movie

- looking up old threads about a book on HN

- searching for the return policy of something I bought online

ChatGPT can't do any of this. And that's not a fault, it just isn't designed for this.

Google already answers questions and most of the time, the info is presented above the fold and doesn't even require clicking on a link to some article. I always found this odd, since it means sites lose traffic, and any Google ADs on those sites don't get impressions/clicks.

E-ChatGPT should replace snail-Google. It's called a reaping of just rewards, happens all the time. Google was once blessed by the new god and now must suffer at the hand of the old devil.

How would you use ChatGPT to find e.g. full text of an article or a book? How do you compare whatever it claims with other claims about the same thing?

i.e. no, it can't