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It's an expensive toy that might become a viable product in a decade that doesn't mean it's a valuable company today. Irresponsible spending like this is exactly what led to the dot com bubble.
its a useful tool for me doing research.
What kind of research do llms actually help with?
In my experience, if the answer can't be found in the top google results, the AI simply makes shit up.
The fact that it lies is so irritating, if it at least admitted that it didn't know the answer it would at least be a useful search engine. The fact that it makes stuff up though means I always have to scroll past the AI summary, that I didn't ask for, in order to actually go to the website to check the results myself, because I can't trust it.
The worst part is that mostly lies for things that aren't immediately obvious, so you ask it "what is the color of the sun" and it appears to work just fine, but the moment you use it for any real research, it will just fabricate things wholecloth.