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undeveloper 8 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: AGI fantasy is a blocker to actual engineering

LLMs are quite good at "semantic search", where traditional search engines struggle

jayd16 8 months ago [–]

No one said search engines need to be "traditional" or only Page Rank or whatever.

But you also don't need to filter the information through an hallucinating UX just so you can use vectorization to match actual results.

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