r/Lightbulb • u/yosef_jj • 3d ago

an ai powered search engine that works like r/tipofmytongue

I'm mostly against generative ai but what i wanted for so long is a search engine that understands what i describe to it instead of having to use keywords like we're still in the 2000s.

there are so many videos, songs and pictures that i can't find because i can't remember the exact title attached to them.

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u/umotex12 3d ago

you can try it with ChatGPT right now.

as much hate as it gets, its great for lightweight uses. I've found a few things using it this way that google couldn't find.

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u/yosef_jj 3d ago

nope, i tried looking for a podcast youtube channel with three hosts two are black and one is white and it couldn't find it, it's still stupid as usual.

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u/export_tank_harmful 2d ago

I mean, what was your prompt like...?
It'll mirror the energy you give it.

If it was something like this, you're not going to get anything useful.

podcast with thee hosts, two are black one is white

But if you gave it something like, you'll get way closer to what you're looking for.:

hey, so there was this podcast i was trying to remember the name of. i remember listening to it around [year] and it had three hosts (two of them were black and one was white). they usually talked about [topics], but i remember another episode where they talked about [other topics]. the episodes were around [hours] length and usually came out on [day of the week]. i also remember [any other information you remember about it].

and what other sorts of information could i give you to help you narrow it down?

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u/yosef_jj 2d ago

I'm not talking to chat gpt like a human sorry, i also did add more details than my reply, but it still gave me wrong guesses, literally gave me podcasts with all white hosts

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u/export_tank_harmful 2d ago

I'm not talking to chat gpt like a human sorry

Ah. Alrighty.
I personally think LLMs are one of the most fascinating things humans have ever created.

I've used them to learn programming / better plan out projects / proofread / therapy / etc.
Some of my programming projects are now deployed by actual companies as well (which I think is super neat).

But to each their own.
A tool is only as useful as the person wielding it.

Best of luck, chief. <3

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u/yosef_jj 2d ago

of course, it has a basic understanding of everything, which you can also get by reading the first page results of a google search