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    2 months ago

    Cool, so the worst part of modern search engines has been made into its own standalone search engine. Very neat.

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      I don’t get the hype around LLM, it is a terrible way to search. It has never give me anything useful on any of my search, ever.

      Most of the time asking chatgpt anything non-trivial, it will just spit out gibberish that doesn’t mean anything.

      Who in their right mind would look at these terribly stupid thing and think: Yeah! This garbage is going to advance humanity.

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        Have you tried perplexity.ai? Using it to do some programming and it’s quite good so far. It’s basically LLM + Search Engines.

        You can also use it to use different models (not just with ChatGPT).

        Sometimes even run the code itself (Python for my case) and see if it’s valid.

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    OpenAI also confirmed it plans to integrate SearchGPT into ChatGPT down the line.

    I don’t understand. Isn’t CGPT already just a fancy search engine?

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      No. ChatGPT pulls information out of its ass and how I read it SearchGPT actually links to sources (while also summarizing it and pulling information out of it’s ass, presumably). ChatGPT “knows” things and SearchGPT should actually look stuff up and present it to you.

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        ChatGPT “knows” things and SearchGPT should actually look stuff up and present it to you.

        …where do you think CGPT gets the information it “knows” from?

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    I have kind of just been using ChatGPT 4o as my search engine, it’s been working pretty well.

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        Completely terrible. An AI “search” takes as much electricity as hundreds to thousands of normal searches.

        'AI" is TERRIBLE for climate change because they’re increasing demand for electricity so much that they’re keeping coal plants going that were even scheduled for decomissioning because they use A LOT of power.

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          This can be resolved by building the data centers to cold countries like here in Finland. Servers are very good at converting electricity to heat, and the heat can be used to heat homes.

          Microsoft Azure data center in Espoo is going to heat up 60% of the city’s district heating network.

          Also the electricity here in Finland is one of the cleanest, like in all Nordics (hydro, wind, nuclear)

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            The electricity would be better spent on heat pumps. Computers convert 100% of their electricity into heat. Heat pumps convert 200-400% of their electricity into heat.

            (I’m being lose with my wording for brevity’s sake)