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Latty • yesterday at 8:54 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

It's not a "skill issue", the product got worse.

If I wanted a chatbot, I'd go to a chatbot, I want a search. Making me frame my query as a question rather than just assuming it's a query by default is just bad.


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mattlondon • yesterday at 9:04 PM

We have to remember we're not average users. As others have pointed out here, normal people always just asked natural language questions.

Why do you think it was Google who was doing all that research into AI that invented the transformer architecture - that all current LLMs are based off of - in the first place? Normal users just ask a question, they don't construct a query. I think there are quotes about Larry Page wanting "the Star Trek computer" - we've basically surpassed that now I think.

Google has been working on this sort of problem for decades, and it's paying off for them.

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