[cmogni1]

I think the most interesting thing to me is they have multi-hop search & query refinement built in based on prior context/searches. I'm curious how well this works.

I've built a lot of LLM applications with web browsing in it. Allow/block lists are easy to implement with most web search APIs, but multi-hop gets really hairy (and expensive) to do well because it usually requires context from the URLs themselves.

The thing I'm still not seeing here that makes LLM web browsing particularly difficult is the mismatch between search result relevance vs LLM relevance. Getting a diverse list of links is great when searching Google because there is less context per query, but what I really need from an out-of-the-box LLM web browsing API is reranking based on the richer context provided by a message thread/prompt.

For example, writing an article about the side effects of Accutane should err on the side of pulling in research articles first for higher quality information and not blog posts.

It's possible to do this reranking decently well with LLMs (I do it in my "agents" that I've written), but I haven't seen this highlighted from anyone thus far, including in this announcement.

[simple10]

That's been my experience as well. Web search built into the API is great for convenience, but it would be ideal to be able to provide detailed search and reranking params.

Would be interesting to see comparisons for custom web search RAG vs API. I'm assuming that many of the search "params" of the API could be controlled via prompting?

[peterldowns]

> For example, writing an article about the side effects of Accutane should err on the side of pulling in research articles first for higher quality information and not blog posts.

Interesting, I'm taking isotretinoin right now and I've found it's more interesting and useful to me to read "real" experiences (from reddit and blogs) than research papers.

[TuringTourist]

Can you elaborate? What information are you gleaning from anecdotes that is both reliable and efficacious enough to outweigh research?

I'm not trying to challenge your point, I am genuinely curious.

[peterldowns]

I just want to hear about how other people have felt while taking the medicine. I don't care about aggregate statistics very much. Honestly what research do you read and for what purpose? All social science is basically junk and most medical research is about people whose bodies and lifestyles are very different than mine.

[TechDebtDevin]

Wear lots of (mineral) sunscreen, and drink lots and lots of water. La Roche Posey lotions are what I used, and continue to use with tretinoin. Sunscreen is the most important.

[peterldowns]

Great advice, already quite on top of it. I'd recommend checking out stylevana and importing some of the japanese/korean sunscreens if you haven't tried them out yet!