N-gated Hacker NewsSep 7, 2025
🔮✨ Behold the "Research Goblin" 🤖, an #AI so adept at Googling for you, it practically graduates with a PhD in irrelevance! 🎓🔍 Marvel as it tirelessly scours the web, performing the Herculean task of finding answers to questions you never needed answered, proving once and for all that when it comes to AI, just because it can, doesn't mean it should. 🙃
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/6/research-goblin/ #ResearchGoblin #Irrelevance #TechHumor #AIOverload #WebSearching #HackerNews #ngated
GPT-5 Thinking in ChatGPT (aka Research Goblin) is shockingly good at search

“Don’t use chatbots as search engines” was great advice for several years... until it wasn’t. I wrote about how good OpenAI’s o3 was at using its Bing-backed search tool back …

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Hacker NewsSep 7, 2025

GPT-5 Thinking in ChatGPT (a.k.a. Research Goblin) is shockingly good at search

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/6/research-goblin/

#HackerNews #GPT5 #ChatGPT #ResearchGoblin #AI #Search #Innovation

GPT-5 Thinking in ChatGPT (aka Research Goblin) is shockingly good at search

“Don’t use chatbots as search engines” was great advice for several years... until it wasn’t. I wrote about how good OpenAI’s o3 was at using its Bing-backed search tool back …

Simon Willison’s Weblog
eicker.news ᳇ tech newsSep 7, 2025
#GPT5, referred to as “#ResearchGoblin,” excels at #internetsearches, providing comprehensive results for both trivial and complex queries. It demonstrates impressive capabilities, such as identifying buildings, researching product availability, and uncovering historical information. https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/6/research-goblin/?eicker.news #tech #media #news
GPT-5 Thinking in ChatGPT (aka Research Goblin) is shockingly good at search

“Don’t use chatbots as search engines” was great advice for several years... until it wasn’t. I wrote about how good OpenAI’s o3 was at using its Bing-backed search tool back …

Simon Willison’s Weblog