Fair point, but Google is also exactly as confidently wrong as GTP. They are both based on Web scrapes of content from humans after all, who are frequently confidently wrong.
Sure, but Google at least presents itself as being a search engine, composed of potentially unreliable information scraped from the web. GPT looks/feels like an infallible oracle.
This is an important point about GPT-based tools, and it was one of the key parts that Galactica got wrong: it was (over)sold as "an AI scientist", instead of "random crazy thought generator for inspiration/playful ideation assistance".
No it isn't. When Google gives you incorrect info, it links the source. GPT-3 will gleefully mash together info from several incorrect sources and share none of them.
If Google is giving you a search result, yes. But Google returns other types of answers, and sometimes they are unsourced and wrong.
For example, do this search:
who wrote the song "when will i be loved"
The results page contains short section before the web page results. This section says:
When Will I Be Loved
Song by Linda Ronstadt
The song was actually written[1] by Phil Everly of the Everly Brothers, who recorded it in 1960. Linda Ronstadt released her version in 1974. Both versions rose pretty high on the pop charts, but Ronstadt's went higher.
But, what does "by" mean -- recorded by or written by? Maybe Google isn't giving me a wrong answer but is just answering the wrong question?
Nope, the Google result also includes a row of pink radio buttons for selecting different info about the song, and the page loads with the "Composer" button selected.
So, it's just plain wrong. And there is no link or other hint where the information came from.
That assumes that the primary feature of Google is the "quick answer" box. Of course the quick answer box is often wrong—that's why all the search results are right below it. The quick answer box sometimes saves you a click, but it's not what Google is for. The idea that a better quick answer box could replace the whole search engine is silly.
