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Dave Winer ☕

This is such a milestone.

I was able to find something on my blog by asking a chatbot where I wrote about it. A literate response. This is new. I don't think any writer has ever been able to do this before. This is the kind of thing Google has never been able to do.

Here's the query and the response.

chatthing.ai/bots/b5c0ad69-55d

Chat ThingChat Thing | Custom ChatGTP bots using your dataAI chatbots for anything powered by data from anywhere

@davew In this case, your post was in its training data. If it hadn't been, the chatbot would have made something up. Perhaps this problem could be fixed by combining a chatbot with a checker based on more conventional search technology, to filter out hallucinations.

@davew search is so broken (still!) in so many places anything which can do it better is going to be helpful. eg I gave up long ago doing searches directly on Rotten Tomatoes, whereas a quick google for "rt foo" will always give me the foo I want on that site

@davew This is something I’ve wanted for years. I’ve been a journalist since ‘99 and have tons of published articles and research notes on my hard drive. I think there is a lot of value to be extracted there, with the right tools.