Understanding questions and summarizing information is a field where LLMs are quite good at. If they actually look up the sources and “read” the websites they are often able to give good answers. If they don’t use tools and just answer from what they “remember”, the information often contains hallucinations.
So from a user perspective I think search will get better for specific questions.
However, traffic to websites and all the things the LLMs omits are lost. If the LLMs gives you the answer you don’t learn about the author of the information, the design of the website, the nuanced and maybe thoughtful story the author built around the information and all the other stuff the author put there.
Understanding questions and summarizing information is a field where LLMs are quite good at. If they actually look up the sources and “read” the websites they are often able to give good answers. If they don’t use tools and just answer from what they “remember”, the information often contains hallucinations.
So from a user perspective I think search will get better for specific questions.
However, traffic to websites and all the things the LLMs omits are lost. If the LLMs gives you the answer you don’t learn about the author of the information, the design of the website, the nuanced and maybe thoughtful story the author built around the information and all the other stuff the author put there.