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The original was posted on /r/singularity by /u/Cunninghams_right on 2024-01-22 07:34:57+00:00.
as agents and web search are being more and more prevalent in AI tools (bing/ChatGPT/Bard/etc.), I think that the next big step is to gather information and make meaningful analysis of it, which none of the tools can really do right now. right now, Bing Chat/Bard can gather information from 1, or maybe 2 websites and present it to you in a meaningful comparison. beyond that, it falls apart. I hope we see LLM based tools that are able to gather and compare more information, like looking at grocery store websites.
the shopping list test:
- user makes a shopping list, pastes it into the tool, and asks the tool to give them a list of cheapest places to shop in their area
- the tool should either already have location, or know to ask for it
- the tool should crawl each grocery store website and sales flyer
- the tool should be able to come back with the total price for the given shopping list for the nearest grocery stores
not that shopping lists are really important, it just makes an easy test to know when we've entered an era where the tools can really be an assistant vs just a better way to google information. it could be data about house prices, transit schedules of different cities, etc. etc.