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People just aren’t used to using it right yet. The way it can synthesize sources and simulates reasoning, is unprecedented, compared to keyword search. Queries can be 2000 words.

I had a 7 response back and forth with it today trying to establish the American Liberal English equivalent of “I am a Patriot” from American Conservative English. Each of my responses was why I disagreed with its results and what it could do better.

Being able to type five sentences in a row, before submitting anything, and get a coherent cited response is utterly unlike googling some words and opening the top 10 results hunting for something.

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> The way it can synthesize sources and simulates reasoning, is unprecedented, compared to keyword search.

Simulating reasoning is only an impressive trick if you are accurate.

ELIZA "simulated reasoning" - but it's just a pattern matcher. Now this bot completes sentences based on sentences that other people have emitted in the past.

> get a coherent cited response

It would much more interesting if it were an accurate response.

Hopefully someday.

Who knows how long this stays in a prerelease state, and what other sanity checks they add to it.

> Queries can be 2000 words.

That is why Bing is the wrong product to integrate it with. Most Google users will not look after the first 10 results because reading so much gets tiresome. They are never going to write 2000 words to try to get the information that they want when they are not willing to read 100 words.

> I disagreed with its results and what it could do better.

That is the problem. You know the answer and are looking for a question to get it. That is the opposite of what a search engine is. It can be a great tech for makes no sense as a search engine.

I did not know the answer.

We sort of settled upon there not being a great counterpart.

I ended up with a 500 word query because of the question limit. I initially asked it a question with 4 follow ups. After pressing new topic, I rephrased all my previous query as one request, and it handled my previous questions in one response.

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