Future of Search and Context

“I found a piece you wrote in the footnote of a book that I admire.” In other words, it took effort for us to find each other. And much like an inefficient light bulb gives off heat, folk search algorithms have the byproduct of context.

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OpenAI’s product trades Google’s vastness for directness, dimensionality for simplicity. It is Gaiman’s librarian, leveraging vast sums of human knowledge to provide a definitive answer – even if it sometimes gets it wrong. In E.O. Wilson’s Age of the Synthesizer, ChatGPT’s talent for distillation, generation, coalescence – managed at speed – may

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