Can ChatGPT replace Google?

I haven't tried laMDA, but how is ChatGPT different from laMDA?

Aren't they both models built for dialog?

Seems like Google is already building laMDA into Google Assistant which is a better application for a dialog model.

Like people said before, Google isn't meant to give you made up answers based on a trained model. It's mean to get you the best document with a link based on your query. Even when it give you a direct answer to your query is will still provide a link to where it got that information.

Lemme see. Google searches the web trying to match search terms. ChatGPT makes stuff up using fragments of text it's seen before. Um, I don't think so.

No. Because it's not a search engine. The point of search is links, not a plausible-but-unverifiable blob of text.

Let me open my last few searches from today:

- checking the release data of a movie

- looking up old threads about a book on HN

- searching for the return policy of something I bought online

ChatGPT can't do any of this. And that's not a fault, it just isn't designed for this.

Google already answers questions and most of the time, the info is presented above the fold and doesn't even require clicking on a link to some article. I always found this odd, since it means sites lose traffic, and any Google ADs on those sites don't get impressions/clicks.

How would you use ChatGPT to find e.g. full text of an article or a book? How do you compare whatever it claims with other claims about the same thing?

i.e. no, it can't