Do you use AI?

Yes I do. I find it really useful. When searching through a normal search engine it will just search with key words and no context which is why searches often bring up utter nonsense and not what you want.

When using ai, it can use context. You can also find tune it and ask it questions to get the answer that you want.

I wouldn't talk to it about anything particularly personal although I find it a very good tool for problem solving.

I don't tend to log in so as much as the data of what I ask will be stored somewhere im sure, it'll be attached to my IP address rather than my name. If anyone cares enough to match that to my name and sift through the very boring nature of the things they use it for then they can enjoy.

It may not be able to feel or emote but I honestly find it's responses more empathetic than from a lot of humans so this doesn't bother me at all.

Whats the difference between an AI search and a normal one, do you word it differently or does it ask you questions if it dosen't understand what you want?

Whats the difference between an AI search and a normal one, do you word it differently or does it ask you questions if it dosen't understand what you want?

If you want a summary without clicking on anything, or worrying about any cookies and all the tracking nonsense, or paywalls, then it is easier and a lot quicker.

If you want to click on 10 sites, sort out the cookies and ead through the stuff yourself, then ok. If you have all day and like opening lots of tabs and don't get lost, then don't use it. I think you can avoid it in he browser if you want.

It should help your searches return what you are interested in, rather than the random stuff you report you get.

It would depend on what you were searching. You may get some the same. But you should get more accurate results. You shouldn't get irrelevant things like air fryers if that isn't what you have searched for. You would also be able to tell it that you didn't want air fryers and then it would search again but eliminate air fryers this time. You cannot ask Google to refine it's search.

If you give me an example of something you would want to search for I may be able to make a little more clear for you.

Here's my understanding of it, TheCatWoman . 

A generative AI prompt might be something like 'Write me a UK English summary in under 500 words of all the available research on AuDHD burnout, in clear words suitable for a non-technical audience and with a bibliography."

The equivalent search might be 'simple summary of research into AuDHD burnout'.

The difference is the generative AI prompt looks at all the research it can find and generates (writes) the type of summary you ask for, while the search brings back all the summaries it can find and you have to work through them to find the best or make a 'greatest hits" one.

So I'll get the same old crap with a nicer explaination then?

I I asked AI to do a search would I get different results to when I do a google search or would I still get airfryers and a load of other stuff I don't want?

THank you all for your answers, but I still don't feel any clearer about it that I did before

Search engines are very simple. If I type in find me the best laptop under £1000. It will look for key words. Likely laptop, under and £1000. This kind of search works well with a search engine because it can find results that fit those key words which will likely bring you laptops under £1000. It would probably struggle with the best part though unless someone had made a list of laptops they thought were best. If I were asking more complicated questions, I wouldn't necessarily find my answer as it would just find websites with those key words rather than look at the meaning of my question.

AI is more complicated. I don't understand how it fully works. But it is able to look at all the words in a sentence and decipher the meaning. Now it's not perfect, it can certainly make mistakes but on the whole I find it very useful. There is definitely a knack to the way you word the questions. AI like chat gpt may ask follow up questions to clarify your meaning. It may also tell you if it has no idea what you mean. You can also correct it if it hasn't understood the question how you intended it. The thing I like most is that you can narrow the search by asking for additional things. So if I typed find me the best laptop under £1000 into AI and it came up with a list. I could then ask it to narrow down my search further by asking it to shortlist the laptops with the best memory capability or that would be most suitable for photo editing or whatever it is I want the laptop to do. This is much harder and more time consuming in a normal search engine.

The old search just returned a load of links to sites.

AI search gives you a summary.

E.g. ask Google what's good to see in London and it might have given links to tourist attraction websites. Now it gives a text summary before the links. So you can see something like the top 7 with some info and why they and good. The info is extracted from various sources, then paraphrased to give a block of text. Just like if you asked someone knowledgeable. But just like a person you may not agree with them.

All the browsers do it now or have a tab that will give you the AI info.