ChatGPT is better at telling me what a block of code does or what my medical report says. Google for answering quick questions that don't need a full sentence.
For all the criticism ChatGPT gets, Google is also highly inaccurate.
I've wired GPT-3 to my command prompt, and I tend to use that for quick queries, like keyboard shortcuts and the command prompt to delete a file. It shouldn't replace document lookup tools like Dash though.
All these models know are what they are trained on. That's it. What they are trained on along with whatever limited window of memory that they have for an open-ended chat type query.
I don't consider any large language model a replacement for research and searching. Although I do get a kick out of it for generating ridiculous nonsense and that brings me great joy because I get to laugh at it. Making nonsense top 10 lists or nonsense drink recipes. Those are hilarious times. Deliberately tuning the model so it's running a fever is just wonderful.
People talk about monetizing it and somehow running apps off of it and all of this crap and all it does is benefit the creators of it. You will own nothing of it. You aren't running it on a computer that you own. You're going to be renting compute from them to run the thing that they made in hopes that you can make money off of it. It's silly! You're never going to come out on top in that proposition unless you can run it on hardware that you own and not just in the cloud because you're renting that hardware.
The birth of Google in 1998 also brought about the birth of the SEO industry. 25 years later, there's still an SEO industry despite being built on top of something they don't have any control over. The beauty of a market economy is that it allows for people monetizing something they own nothing of, and that's totally fine!