Hello friends, welcome to my YouTube channel Tech with Amna. The topic of this video is the difference between ChatGPT and a search engine.
ChatGPT is a language model created to hold a conversation with the end user. On the other hand, a search engine indexes web pages on the internet to help the user find the information they are looking for.
The free version of ChatGPT does not have the ability to search the internet for information. It uses the information it learned from training data to generate a response, which may have room for error. In contrast, a search engine like Google has access to the latest information.
One major difference is that ChatGPT only has access to information up to 2021, whereas a regular search engine like Google has access to the latest information. For example, if you ask the free version of ChatGPT who won the World Cup in 2022, it would not be able to provide a response, but Google would.
If you are a ChatGPT Plus subscriber, you have access to Bing’s integration into ChatGPT. This gives the chat bot access to the internet and the ability to index the web. The major difference between ChatGPT Plus and a search engine is the chat bot’s ability to understand natural language prompts and provide conversational answers.
Despite looking very impressive, ChatGPT still has limitations. Users sometimes need to reword questions multiple times for ChatGPT to understand their intent. Another limitation is the lack of quality in the responses it delivers, which can sometimes be plausible sounding but make no practical sense or be excessively verbose. Additionally, ChatGPT answers more than half of software engineering questions incorrectly.
One primary problem is that while the answers that ChatGPT produces may look good, they have a high rate of being incorrect. Critics argue that these tools are just very good at putting words into an order that makes sense statistically, but they cannot understand the meaning or whether the statements they make are correct.
Furthermore, ChatGPT’s data is limited up to 2021, so it does not have awareness of events or news that have occurred since then. Lastly, ChatGPT does not provide sources for its responses.
These limitations have been addressed through ChatGPT’s integration with Bing as its default search engine. The Bing plugin gives ChatGPT the ability to index the internet and provide citations. Currently, the Bing plugin is limited to ChatGPT Plus subscribers, but it will be free for everyone to use in the future.
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