> For some problems it's just very hard to express them in a googleable form
I had an issue where my Mac would report that my tethered iPhone's batteries were running low when the battery was in fact fine. I had tried googling an answer, and found many similar-but-not-quite-the-same questions and answers. None of the suggestions fixed the issue.
I then asked the 'MacOS Guru' model for chatGPT my question, and one of the suggestions worked. I feel like I learned something about chatGPT vs Google from this - the ability of an LLM to match my 'plain English question without a precise match for the technical terms' is obviously superior to a search engine. I think google etc try synonyms for words in the query, but to me it's clear this isn't enough.
I had an issue where my Mac would report that my tethered iPhone's batteries were running low when the battery was in fact fine. I had tried googling an answer, and found many similar-but-not-quite-the-same questions and answers. None of the suggestions fixed the issue.
I then asked the 'MacOS Guru' model for chatGPT my question, and one of the suggestions worked. I feel like I learned something about chatGPT vs Google from this - the ability of an LLM to match my 'plain English question without a precise match for the technical terms' is obviously superior to a search engine. I think google etc try synonyms for words in the query, but to me it's clear this isn't enough.