Some people expect LLMs as part of a better "search".
LLMs should be integrated to search, as a natural application: search results can heavily depend on happy phrasing, search engines work through sparse keywords, and LLMs allow to use structured natural language (not "foo bar baz" but "Which foo did a bar baz?" - which should be resistant to terms variation and exclude different semantics related to those otherwise sparse terms).
But it has to be done properly - understand the question, find material, verify the material, produce a draft reply, verify the draft vis-a-vis the material, maybe iterate...
DuckDuckGo Ai assist is going in the right direction, imo. It will pull info from wikipedia, use math and map tools plus other web sources that has been mostly accurate for me on the search page.
The chat option uses gpt-4o with web search and was able to provide links to colonial map resources I was curious about after falling down that rabbit hole. It also gave me general (& proper) present day map links to the places I was looking for in the map sites I asked for.
It did get confused a few times when I was trying to get present day names of old places I had forgot; like Charles River in Va that it kept trying to send me to Boston or Charles City Co on the James river and told me to look for it around there...
The York river wiki page clearly says it was once Charles River. Maybe I wasn't asking the right questions. For more unique things it was pretty helpful thou and saved the endless searching w/ 100 tabs adventure
Some people expect LLMs as part of a better "search".
LLMs should be integrated to search, as a natural application: search results can heavily depend on happy phrasing, search engines work through sparse keywords, and LLMs allow to use structured natural language (not "foo bar baz" but "Which foo did a bar baz?" - which should be resistant to terms variation and exclude different semantics related to those otherwise sparse terms).
But it has to be done properly - understand the question, find material, verify the material, produce a draft reply, verify the draft vis-a-vis the material, maybe iterate...