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They get you 80 to 90 percent close to generally solving most problems asked. Sure they need fact checked as any info does. They are of major use in all areas of study and life. Just not the god everyone wants it to be.
yeah my thought was like how often is a web search "right". To me ai search is just another version of search. its like at first searching gave you a list of urls, then it gave you a list of urls with human type names as well to make it more clear what it was, then it started giving back little summaries to give an idea of what each page was saying. now it gives you a summary of many pages. My main complaint is these things should be required to giver references and their answers should pretty much look like a wikipedia page but the little drop down carats or roll overs (although I prefer a drop down myself).
What I have seen like duckAI in duckduckgo search it cites references and if you query GPT and other models with the specific data your looking towards it will cite and give links to where it sourced the input from like PubMed. Etc.
For instance I will query with something like give me a list of flowers that are purple, cite all sources and ensure accuracy of data provided by cross referencing with other studies while using previous chats as context.
I find it's about how you type your queries and logic. Once you understand how the models work rather than blindly accepting them as supreme AI then you understand it's limits and how to utilize the tool for what they are.
I really feel it should not be necessary to ask them to site all sources though. It should be default behavior.