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You wrote "search the internet" but what Bing really does is "query indices created by Bing's web crawling agents as they trawled live, reachable web pages around the Internet", which is a remarkably different data set than the one you suggest.

[delusional]

I don't quite understand how that's any different from what I'm saying. If i had to naively design this system I'd probably prompt the AI to somehow tell me if it wanted more information. Then I'd go to my regular search engine, input whatever the AI wanted to know something about, and feed whatever my search engine came up with back into the AI through the context for another synthesis step.

It seems to me like that would be covered under "query indices created by Bing's web crawling agents as they trawled live, reachable web pages around the Internet" because that's also what the regular Bing search engine does. I suppose one could argue that it's not really searching the web, but rather the Bing index which is then derived from the web. That really seems like a pointless distinction since you're just using the web index to leverage the preexisting engineering work to extract meaningful content.