GPT-5's enhanced search capabilities make it a powerful research tool
By
klelatti
Pulled from the oven just right. Trustworthy, fact-dense, deeply satisfying.
Summary
The article discusses how GPT-5 (referred to as "Research Goblin") has significantly improved at using its Bing-backed search tool, making it highly effective for internet research tasks. The author notes that the old advice against using chatbots as search engines no longer applies, as GPT-5 can handle both trivial and complex search assignments with impressive thoroughness. The piece also briefly mentions a $1.5bn Anthropic books settlement that may count as a win for Anthropic.
Key quotes
· 4 pulledI've started calling it my Research Goblin.
I can assign a task to it, no matter how trivial or complex, and it will do an often unreasonable amount of work to search the internet and figure out an answer.
"Don't use chatbots as search engines" was great advice for several years... until it wasn't.
This is excellent for satisfying curiosity, and occasionally useful for more important endeavors as well.
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