It's powered by the GPT-4 model family and is planned to integrate into ChatGPT at some point in the future. SearchGPT is OpenAI’s long-awaited answer to...
I mean it works ok for things that aren’t important. But you never really can have too much faith in the results because it will state blatantly incorrect answers with great certainty.
Same (in some situations). I feel like searching for “how to do X?”, where X is a simple problem or knowledge, more often than not the classic search results are linking to articles that are way too long and talk around the solution way too much before actually getting to it (if at all).
Sure, I don’t trust the AI responses for critical stuff, but I honestly rarely trust a random blog article either.
I used perplexity pretty exclusively for a while. Especially for work. Both have their place and use cases but when I’m looking for something truly specific or nuanced, it’s DDG and a manual search.
I have kind of just been using ChatGPT 4o as my search engine, it’s been working pretty well.
I wonder what the energy/environmental impact is vs a traditional search.
I mean it works ok for things that aren’t important. But you never really can have too much faith in the results because it will state blatantly incorrect answers with great certainty.
At least Perplexity links to the sources
Same (in some situations). I feel like searching for “how to do X?”, where X is a simple problem or knowledge, more often than not the classic search results are linking to articles that are way too long and talk around the solution way too much before actually getting to it (if at all).
Sure, I don’t trust the AI responses for critical stuff, but I honestly rarely trust a random blog article either.
I used perplexity pretty exclusively for a while. Especially for work. Both have their place and use cases but when I’m looking for something truly specific or nuanced, it’s DDG and a manual search.