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by kenjackson 653 days ago
It sounds like your use of AI is one of the worst uses. Standard semantic search would be much better and appropriate.
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Existence of LLMs make Google search even more relevant for cross-checking rather than less relevant for deep research. Daniel Dennett said we should have all levels of searches available for everyone i.e. from basic string matching to semantic matching. [0]

[0] https://youtu.be/arEvPIhOLyQ?t=1139

No disagreement with that. My expectations were not high--but I was still surprised how bad it was. There are absolutely no guardrails.
If summarization and analysis isn’t the main use of AI, then what is?
How do you run a semantic search