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by vicentwu
1228 days ago
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It's fascinating to think about the future landscape of the search and web. Some assumptions:
1. Url-based web will not wither away.
2. Asking questions in the chat-like mode is more natural to people.
3. Generated answers cost more when longer.
4. Generated answers are some kind of distilled knowledge and can't be right all the time.
4. People don't like long answers and prefer the concise one.
5. Sources and citations make generated answers more credible.
6. Fully exploring a question needs a lot of information from different views.
7. Generated answers some simple thoughts:
The search behavior would hugely be two main steps: 1.getting some concise answers from the AI model directly through a chat, which might be enough for 90% use cases. 2.some more extensive search just like how people are searching today, which might be a kind of niche. For websites, being cited in the generated answers will be the new kind of SEO things, and it would be a good strategy to producing some newest, deep or long-tail knowledge and information, which leads to a more traditional way of search because AI model doesn't have enough data to generate a good answer. ... |
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It's not just that it's chat, its the ability to refine. Currently, I search something. It returns garbage. I search something new. What I dont do is tell the search what it did wrong the first time. I might sort of do that with -words, but its a fight every time.
The beauty of these new chat systems is that they have short term memory. Its bein able to work within the parameters and context of the conversation. I dont particularly care if it is "chat like" or has its own syntax, what I want is a short term state.
And at the same time, I want long term state. I want to be able to save instructions as simple commands and retrieve them later. Like if I am searching for product reviews, to only return articles where it is convinced the people actually bought and tried the products, not just assembled a list from an online search.