Ask HN: Are we sure LLMs are that useful in a web search application?
by duringmath on Hacker News.
Idly chatting with the search box doesn’t strike me as the most productive use of my time. Instant answers or whatever they’re called already produce direct answers plus they cite sources and provide links which is what everyone seems to think is the solution to the “LLMs make stuff up” problem. Not to mention they’re faster and cheaper to run. Only truly practical use case I can think of is summarizing articles or writing them which makes more sense as a word processor or browser add-ons