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For the past two and a half years the feature I’ve most wanted from LLMs is the ability to take on search-based research tasks on my behalf. We saw the …
For the past two and a half years the feature I’ve most wanted from LLMs is the ability to take on search-based research tasks on my behalf. We saw the first glimpses of this back in early 2023, with Perplexity (first launched December 2022, first prompt leak in January 2023) and then the GPT-4 powered Microsoft Bing (which launched/cratered spectacularly in February 2023). It churned away thinking for 21 seconds, ran a bunch of searches, figured out the new library (which existed way outside of its training cut-off date), found the upgrade instructions and produced a new version of my code that worked perfectly.
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