ChatGPT. I avoid Google as much as possible.
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Tried both but honestly haven't found much of a proper use for either.
I still don't think it's much more of a novelty. From what I've used it really feels like you can see the training data in all of the answers, which obviously, but like if I ask it to write a cover letter it feels like it's some cover letter it trained on more than mine
It’s much better than novelty if you learn how to use it. I routinely use it to write scripts for Google apps scripts, bash, etc. I’m using it to help with rust libraries that don’t have much documentation. I’ve used it to research camera gear that I don’t know much about. And once you get some information from it you can then go Google. Google has gotten so bad lately that it’s not hard for ChatGPT to beat it though. If you’re using 3.5 I highly recommend stopping that nonsense though. There’s zero reason to use 3.5 and every reason to use 4.
Haven't tried bard but use ChatGPT to write/debug scripts and SAP stuff. Also asking it when I have simple but technical questions.
I am also downloading and running the latest models in the local LLM space every 2-3 weeks, just waiting for the point at which they finally take over gpt3.5 at which point I'll probably not touch ChatGPT again.
ChatGPT is my programming rubber ducky for general stuff
I use bing mostly.
Having it do a search then summarize the content from the search in one step is really handy. Basically skips the step of regular search oping a bunch of the links looking for relevant info.
AND it provides the source / references so you can easily click and read the actual page the info came from.
bing chat is pretty great, not only do you get the benefits of search and gpt4 but also summarizing/answering questions on the webpage you have open or pdfs if you open them in edge. Only issue is that it is slower
Now are these companies stealing everything and possibly opening up a cesspit that their platforms will fall into? Absolutely. These tools are literally removing the ability for them to advertise because they are leading to less link traffic that would have google ads or otherwise and also the degradation of search tools... but by god its super useful for now
only real problem for me personally is that it gives low barrier to entry to ask about any question that pops in my ADHD brain, so I keep having more and more questions that never stop. Learning a lot tho
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none, because 1. privacy nightmare, and 2. a glorified keyboard autocorrect isn't a replacement for a search engine.
Both have option to turn off history saving. In this case they keep dialog for a short time only.
Regarding glorified keyboard autocorrect... I see this a bit different.
Anyways, thanks for sharing your opinion.
Both have option to turn off history saving. In this case they keep dialog for a short time only.
I'm sure this will prevent Google/Bing from storing everything you type in there on their end for as long as they please.
I see this a bit different.
given how the very purpose of LLMs is to just create sequences of words that are statistically likely to follow each other in a sentence, and how there are countless examples out there of them hallucinating answers including non-existent court cases, or providing authors of articles with a list of articles they have not written and so on, I struggle to see it as anything else.
While I am generally inclined to agree with you, I do think AI is getting a bit more advanced than a glorified autocorrect. If you are interested in hearing some examples of cool things it is capable of I suggest listening to a recent episode of This American Life. https://www.thisamericanlife.org/803/greetings-people-of-earth Act One: First Contact is the section I am referring to
I already got that you do not found a use case - and this is fine. I asked for opinion of people who use these both tool and can compare
I find Phind.com quite useful as an IT person.
I have never heard about it. What are the benefits over generic chatGPT?
I tried both with same question and found them both good. I'm not actively using them for now, but if they give the same results I'll prioritize Bard. I hate Microsoft more than Google.
Github copilot (chatgpt) is amazing for accelerated programming
I use ChatGPT and Bing Chat.
I barely use Bard because it does not support Spanish yet (my main language).
I haven't tried Bard, but I've currently been using ChatGPT for writing cover letters for job applications.
I still use Google for ~95% of my queries because I like real sources, comprehensive documentation, and not having to read a wall of text when a one-line answer would have sufficed.
ChatGPT is a good replacement for Quora/Stack Exchange for explaining general knowledge stuff like other languages' grammar and simple science, as well as finding authors/books/movies from descriptions when you've forgotten their names.
Bard is... kinda dumb. I gave it a few chances, but it was nothing compared to ChatGPT's free tier.
NovelAI for paid usage with NSFW capabilty! It's not to be used in a conversational mode. Instead, you write a section of the story and it will intelligently fill in. It's quite expensive but it also includes an AI image generation feature as well for anime artstyles (and furry...).
Neither because AI is bullshit