GPT-5's search capabilities prove surprisingly effective, changing the chatbot-as-search-engine calculus
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Summary
The article discusses how GPT-5 (nicknamed "Research Goblin") has become remarkably effective at using its Bing-backed search tool to answer complex queries. The author, who previously advised against using chatbots as search engines, now finds GPT-5's search capabilities impressive enough to change that stance. The piece explores how the model can handle both trivial and complex research tasks, satisfying curiosity and proving useful for important endeavors.
Key quotes
· 4 pulledDon't use chatbots as search engines was great advice for several years... until it wasn't.
I'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.
This is excellent for satisfying curiosity, and occasionally useful for more important endeavors as well.
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