An LLM might not be a great way to search for things that may or may not exist…I’ve seen them generate entirely fictional, confident-sounding responses describing things that absolutely do not exist.
It’s the difference between “asking the LLM” and “using the LLM” (as an agent). If you prompt an LLM with a question it’ll try to answer it using it’s own training (which could contain hallucinations). If you ask an LLM to search the Internet on your behalf, that’s actually quite useful.
I use chatGPT regularly for figuring out if some library/engine has this or that functionality. Yes, 10-15% of answers are straightforward lies. But I am a specialist so I don’t have much problem filtering out garbage.
Typical Internet forums provide garbage too. At slightly smaller rates, but still.
Nothing can be trusted nowadays. On no theme. Any data should be checked.
An LLM might not be a great way to search for things that may or may not exist…I’ve seen them generate entirely fictional, confident-sounding responses describing things that absolutely do not exist.
It’s the difference between “asking the LLM” and “using the LLM” (as an agent). If you prompt an LLM with a question it’ll try to answer it using it’s own training (which could contain hallucinations). If you ask an LLM to search the Internet on your behalf, that’s actually quite useful.
I use chatGPT regularly for figuring out if some library/engine has this or that functionality. Yes, 10-15% of answers are straightforward lies. But I am a specialist so I don’t have much problem filtering out garbage.
Typical Internet forums provide garbage too. At slightly smaller rates, but still.
Nothing can be trusted nowadays. On no theme. Any data should be checked.
Well if 10-15% lies is useful to you, cool, but it’s definitely not a practice I would recommend to anyone.