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by drchopchop 1298 days ago
Sure, but Google at least presents itself as being a search engine, composed of potentially unreliable information scraped from the web. GPT looks/feels like an infallible oracle.
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This is an important point about GPT-based tools, and it was one of the key parts that Galactica got wrong: it was (over)sold as "an AI scientist", instead of "random crazy thought generator for inspiration/playful ideation assistance".
ChatGPT page every time you open it:

Limitations:

- May occasionally generate incorrect information

- May occasionally produce harmful instructions or biased content

- Limited knowledge of world and events after 2021

Hacker News, on reading this list of caveats:

This looks and feels like an infallible oracle.