Google's live from Paris event private/deleted immediately
You know, whatever the merits (and it sounds as if there were very few) of Google&#x27;s presentation (or Pinchai&#x27;s recent non-statement) might be, I would have expected the commentariat here at HN to display way more skepticism about language models as a replacement for search. If there&#x27;s a crowd anywhere in the world large enough to leave 200+ comments on a post like this, you&#x27;d think thatg the one at HN would understand these models&#x27; currently unsolved problem with lying and fabulation.<p>And yet when I read the comments, I see this sort of calm acceptance that <i>of course this technology is going to take over search</i>. Why is everyone so confident? The performance of these models is simultaneously jaw-dropping and absurd. With no proposed solutions to the problems that they fundamentally face, why this level of belief that their ascendance is inevitable?