rhedreen

Someone just described ChatGPT as a tool that shows you what an answer looks like (rather than giving you an accurate answer.) Which sounds useless.

But this is something that as a librarian I have a problem describing to students. In traditional (non-LLM) searching, you need to search using the language of the answer. So, for example, I tell my biology students to search using the Latin species name of an organism, because that is more likely to result in scientific articles.

So a possible use would be to show you what language the answer is likely use, how the language is used, and what related concepts you should think about. The trick is how could that be presented in a way that doesn't lead to the short cut of “That sounds like a reasonable answer. I'll stop here.”

One way is Elicit's “Suggest Search Terms” task – put in your question and Elicit pulls out common keywords and phrases. (Elicit requires an account, and it's a little hard to imagine that it's going to remain free forever.)