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Web search using a ChatGPT-like model that can cite its sources
beta.sayhello.so#ai web search#cited sources#generative search#t5 model#chatgpt alternative
How HN took it
14 positive, 43 neutral or asking, 6 mixed, 50 critical, out of 113 comments about the project. Thread score -0.33.
Execution: 3 for, 30 againstIdea: 2 for, 12 againstPerformance: 2 for, 5 againstPricing: 2 for, 1 againstDesign: 1 for, 1 against
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What people liked
Useful and feels like asking a friend for help
From 1 comment
That's a pretty neat use of AI for a subset of use cases. I like it. I just asked it "Why does JavaScript keep crashing", with no particular details, and it was smart enough to…
kirillzubovsky on HN
Impressive concept and cool idea
From 2 comments
This is amazing!
jdpigeon on HNThe current market leader in this seems to be https://metaphor.systems/ Could you talk about how it's similar or different?
metacritic12 on HN
Objections
Answers are often wrong or nonsensical on factual and technical questions
From 4 comments
It gives answer that vaguely look like answer should look like but all the important details are wrong. > A solar eclipse is a partial eclipse of the Sun caused by a solar…
dvh on HNI asked three clearly stated, graduate level questions in my field and all three answers were useless. > what is the relationship between commodity prices and civil war? answer…
notafraudster on HNAsked the same history question[1], "what was the french-speaking population of france during the french revolution", multiple times and got different answers each time. Each…
trynewideas on HNOther people calling copyright issues but this is far from GPT's biggest problem.. > how to build a successful startup > Building a successful startup requires hard work,…
s1k3s on HN
Slow inference and frequent outages under load
From 2 comments
I'm getting "The inference service could be unavailable".
aix1 on HNThe inference seems to be taking very long and it gets stuck at times forever (> a few minutes). My guess is that this is happening due to the load? How fast is this when it's…
aarkay on HN
Copyright concerns about reproducing content from sites like StackOverflow
From 2 comments
Big question if you can do this legally at scale. Pulling the meat of the content from a site like StackOverflow I'm pretty sure ends up as a copyright violation and one of the…
isthispermanent on HN> using ffmpeg, how to split an audio file by its silent intervals [1] The explanation part of answer is unrelated to the prompt. Only the last snippet (of 3) is part of an…
ducktective on HN
Search results often off-topic
From 1 comment
So far not very impressed. https://beta.sayhello.so/search?q=how+can+i+use+a+list+of+strings+as+a+map+key+in+go None of these results are really even on topic, let alone helpful.
Imnimo on HN
Requests
Feedback on individual search results
From 1 comment
It would be great to be able to leave feedback on individual search results For example, the explanation text of "What is RCU (Read-Copy-Update) and how is it different than a…
gavinray on HN
Open source code
From 1 comment
no source code, sad
titaniumtown on HN
Questions
How costly is each query to run
From 1 comment
Out of curiosity, what kind of costs are we incurring per query? I don't know that much about these AI systems aside from that it's apparently too big to run on my own PC. Having…
lucb1e on HN
How it differs from Metaphor and WebGPT
From 2 comments
The current market leader in this seems to be https://metaphor.systems/ Could you talk about how it's similar or different?
metacritic12 on HNSounds very similar to https://openai.com/blog/webgpt/
spullara on HN
Alternatives named
Metaphor Systems
From 1 comment
The current market leader in this seems to be https://metaphor.systems/ Could you talk about how it's similar or different?
metacritic12 on HN
OpenAI WebGPT
From 1 comment
Sounds very similar to https://openai.com/blog/webgpt/
spullara on HN
ChatGPT
From 2 comments
Out of curiosity, what kind of costs are we incurring per query? I don't know that much about these AI systems aside from that it's apparently too big to run on my own PC. Having…
lucb1e on HNThe inference seems to be taking very long and it gets stuck at times forever (> a few minutes). My guess is that this is happening due to the load? How fast is this when it's…
aarkay on HN