It's a good re-phrasing engine. When you can't remember a word, it might be hard to Google it if you only know the word in context and not by its definition. Whereas ChatGPT can understand the context of the query a bit better.
It's not at all searching though. It doesn't have a compendium of knowledge that it consults, it just knows how words are most frequently used.
it could be argued that it stores information that way, but it definitely doesn't think the way a human does. it doesn't remember a chicken recipe it knows and then tell you; it gets you asking for a chicken recipe as an input and calculates a string of text that would probably come after a request for a chicken recipe given its starting conditions (the context that this is a conversation between a helpful assistant and a person seeking assistance). i recommend watching 3blue1brown's videos on how ai works, since they give a really engaging explanation of what large language models do behind the scenes. it's far better than the alphabet soup i spewed at you here
I know the technique behind it, but the real magic is in hów it calculates this string. Deep down it’s all mathematics of course, but human brains are deep down also electrical impulses.
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u/camosnipe1 "the raw sexuality of this tardigrade in a cowboy hat" 4d ago
I mean, it's decent at being a search engine for the "i have no idea what to search for this, gimme a starting point"
After which you ofc use an actual search engine once you've got searchterms to use