shanoshamanizum OP t1_j6mxesx wrote on January 31, 2023 at 1:55 PM

Reply to comment by khrisrino in Why AI can not replace search index by shanoshamanizum

>The AI has been trained on a large corpus of data (scraped from the internet I guess?). Search engine has also been trained on a large selection of data from the internet. So what’s the difference ultimately?

One is an index where ultimately you decide what to read while the other one is a crystal ball with no alternative options.

khrisrino t1_j6mzbk0 wrote on January 31, 2023 at 2:10 PM

You think you’re getting the full set of possible search results from which you then freely choose … but that’s not how it works. They have a ranker behind the scenes that decides what you get the see.

shanoshamanizum OP t1_j6mzfcy wrote on January 31, 2023 at 2:10 PM

We are comparing the concepts not the misbehavior of providers.

khrisrino t1_j6n01m9 wrote on January 31, 2023 at 2:15 PM

Yes conceptually the search engine is better in that way. But we don’t live in a conceptual world. We are very much exposed to the misbehavior of providers so we cannot ignore them in the evaluation.

shanoshamanizum OP t1_j6n0dp4 wrote on January 31, 2023 at 2:17 PM

Of course, I agree with that and new search engines without caveats are built such as - https://ipfs-search.com/#/ which is not centralized. If the concept is alive new providers will come.