A typical example of how useful chat AI (#chatgpt) is compared to a traditional web search (#google #search - I’m told tagging my posts will increase engagement 😉). I’m debugging some stuff on Windows on an M1 Mac through Parallels. I'm using an MSDN version of Windows but classically MSDN has hundreds of options to choose from. I see “Windows 11 Professional N - Retail” on the list and forget what the “N” means—it's been years since I've used #windows.

A Google search returns links that send me down a rabbit hole.

I ask #chatgpt via @macgpt the same question and answers the question in the second sentence.

Sure the language model learns from the same sources but it has very rarely failed me, whereas Google search fails me more often that I’m happy with.