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Why LLMs are not replacing search

There has been a lot of talks recently about LLMs particularly ChatGPT and now Bard with many people starting to interact with this technology. There are few opinions that it’ll take over how we search, but I don’t feel traditional search is going anywhere, few of my reasons to believe so - 1. LLMs are impressive but not robust - When users first start interacting with these conversational models they are very impressed by the responses it generates, but slowly people can start to see that its not correct always and the results these models spit are not necessarily facts. Also users can make these conversational agents hallucinate things that don’t exist just by conversing with them. And once users start feeling they are getting wrong facts the trust in such models will decrease. 2. No concept of choice - These models spit out a single result, users don’t have any other choices. Many times users want to be able to look through multiple results to gain information about different aspect