{"id":21206,"date":"2022-12-05T08:58:31","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T06:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=21206"},"modified":"2022-12-15T19:47:26","modified_gmt":"2022-12-15T17:47:26","slug":"is-chatgpt-outperforming-google-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2022\/12\/is-chatgpt-outperforming-google-search\/","title":{"rendered":"Is ChatGPT outperforming Google search?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unfortunately it is useless to enter any research question that I am interested in, so lets try some more trivial examples.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"474\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">George Hotz \u201c[GPT] is what kills Google\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Google: Game on!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014-<br \/>Below, Round 1: Which country won the most Eurovision contests?<\/p>\n<p>Google on left; GPT on right.   Not sure I want that much personality in my search results\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/25XngLyiiV\">https:\/\/t.co\/25XngLyiiV<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FHEhMpgpsN\">pic.twitter.com\/FHEhMpgpsN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Gary Marcus (@GaryMarcus) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GaryMarcus\/status\/1598329961383067649?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 1, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/towardsdatascience.com\/openais-chatgpt-is-the-world-s-best-chatbot-a25fa9f54442\">Alberto Romero<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It\u2019s still quite apparent that ChatGPT lacks reasoning abilities and doesn\u2019t have a great memory window (Gary Marcus wrote a great essay on why it \u201ccan seem so brilliant one minute and so breathtakingly dumb the next\u201d). Like Galactica, it makes nonsense sound plausible. People can \u201ceasily\u201d pass its filters and it\u2019s susceptible to prompt injections.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>ChatGPT maybe a jump forward but it is a jump into nowhere. Time to cite again the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gwern.net\/GPT-3#prompts-as-programming\">Gwern essay<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"admonition-title\">Sampling can prove the presence of knowledge but not the absence<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>which is again my problem that it is useless to enter any real research question as there is nothing to train the algorithm beforehand.\u00a0 AI cannot make any difference between true and false as AI does not &#8220;understand&#8221; but simply calculates the strength of the association found in training texts.<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 20.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unfortunately it is useless to enter any research question that I am interested in, so lets try some more trivial examples. George Hotz \u201c[GPT] is what kills Google\u201d Google: Game on! \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014-Below, Round 1: Which country won the most Eurovision contests? Google on left; GPT on right. Not sure I want that much personality in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2022\/12\/is-chatgpt-outperforming-google-search\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Is ChatGPT outperforming Google search?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3358],"class_list":["post-21206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy-of-science","tag-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21206"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21361,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21206\/revisions\/21361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}