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Laura K. Nelson: I'm once again begging everyone to update their priors. "ChatGPT is not a search engine." Yes, yes it is. It actively searches the web based on your prompt, and returns active links relevant to you…
Laura K. Nelson: Like we never had to report which version of Google we used, and what parameters we set, when we did literature searches using Google/Google Scholar. And it for sure influenced/influences what lite…
Laura K. Nelson: (I'm losing my mind here. Be critical of generative AI. Be critical of ChatGPT. Don't use it, tell others not to use it. You don't have to be up on all the latest stuff. All good. But my gosh, the …
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4 experts · 17 posts · 5d ago
Ted Underwood David Lazer Laura K. Nelson Max Woolf
Laura K. Nelson: The free version of ChatGPT automatically searches the web. The prompt "What are the most relevant sources for the claim that LLMs hallucinate?" returns the following. All those link buttons in the…
Laura K. Nelson: In my own N=1 experience, the links I get from (free) ChatGPT are almost always more relevant and helpful than what I get from Google(+Scholar). It just works better for me as a way to find relevan…
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3 experts · 8 posts · 6d ago
Laura K. Nelson Colin Max Woolf
Colin: > If this isn't a search engine, what is it? a computer program that sometimes calls search engine and lossily passes through whatever it returns
Laura K. Nelson: So, a search engine? I'm not trying to be obtuse or anything. ChatGPT, which itself is not the language model but a wrapper to it, likely with more guardrails on top, uses an index of the web to re…
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