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- technology@beehaw.org
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The only thing I want it to do is use simple context when searching something for me. If I have a sports event in my calendar, tickets saved to my wallet, and I say “Hey Google, what time does the {team} match start today?”, it currently gives me a garbage answer linking to a Reddit post where someone asked that a year ago or something. The ecosystem already understands the info I want in this situation, they have all the data points, theres no sophisticated logic required to connect them. But Google Assistant can’t do it, making it pretty useless other than for setting alarms and stuff. If your question isn’t on the list of discrete preprogrammed functions then it just searches what you asked, which for my case should actually be “'{team} fixtures” or something. So it’s often faster to just search manually in the first instance rather than trying to learn the obfuscated scope of what Google assistant can actually do.
I already have for most things I used to use Google search for. Now days there’s about a 10% chance I’ll get the actual results I’m looking for with Google. Most time I start with Google because of my former habits, give up and chatgpt gives me the exact answer I was looking for.
Do you get references from ChatGPT or have any way to verify the information it gives? Admittedly at this point, Google results are often full of AI-written articles too, but at least there are hints that a site might be a content-mill.
The key for me is the gpt can give you a pointed response to your broad question and then you can further research the now broken down problem.
For example, i may ask gpt: is there a tool that can translate knex style sql queries into what the queries that actually gets executed?
And then got responds with info about how to do that and I can then Google the specific things it responds with.
To be honest, I’m not too sure. I’m not really asking questions that requires me to verify the source. Next time I have a question, I’ll check if it can link the sources that were used based on the information given. I’ve mainly been using it recently to update the verbiage for my wife’s resume or how many days it’s been from a specific date so I can track the progress of my plants.
Or, you know, use neither.
