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Sure an hour ago I had watched a video about smaller scales and physics below planck length. And I was curious, if we can classify smaller scales into conceptual groups, where they interact with physics in their own different ways, what would the opposite end of the spectrum be. From there I was able to 'chat' with an AI and discover and search wikipedia for terms such as Cosmological horizon, brane cosmology, etc.
In the end there was only theories on higher observable magnitudes, but it was a fun rabbit hole I could not have explored through traditional search engines - especially not the gimped product driven adsense shit we have today.
Remember how people used to say you can't use Wikipedia, it's unreliable. We would roll our eyes and say "yeah but we scroll down to the references and use it to find source material"? Same with LLM's, you sort through it and get the information you need to get the information you need.
Wikipedia isn't to be referenced for scientific papers, I'm sure we all agree there. But it does do almost exactly what you described. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shape_of_the_universe has some great further reading links. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmology has some great reads too. And for the time short: https://simple.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmology which also has Related Pages
I'm still yet to see how AI beats a search engine. And your example hasn't convinced me either
If you still can't see how natural language search is useful, that's fine. We can, and we're happy to keep using it.