Are you saying Google search was better?

Oatly, the milk alternative, has clever marketing material on their cartons of grain-based milk. Along with morning granola, your milk cartons question whether oat milk is “anti-cow” by asking whether dairy milk is "pro-cow."

1500 cows in parallel stalls. Moo.

Similarly, those who currently complain that computer intelligence is "anti-human" should consider this simple question:

    Were Google search results pro-human?

ChatGPT results are better than traditional Google search rankings for two primary reasons.  First, my understanding is that vector math is replacing matrix math, which, though matrix math made a few people very rich in the late 1990’s, is primarily a way to provide the answer that a supplier bid the most to offer. 

Matrix-ranked relevance times price equals the truth.

The 2nd reason: vector math calculates relations  tens of millions of them.  It is a math of connection. It forms relationships. Matrix math ranks relevance.  It identifies objects.

Paid matrix-ranked search offers solutions. Google has helped me so many times, and often provided great answers, but isn't "providing the best tool to a question" the precise definition of "mansplaining"?  Is paid search masculine in the most stereotypical ways.  AI is queer, by comparison.

Meanwhile, the vector math models (OpenAI, Claude, and their competitors) are releasing new versions (5.0 in 10 days, for example) that are 100 times faster/better/smarter than what you’re using today.  Try the new iPhone 16, which came out two weeks ago with Apple Intelligence.  You’ll see what I mean. (Speaking to my new iPhone--please don't ask me this afternoon if I intend to clean the kitty litter tomorrow.)

Imagine if our students and learners (assuming we ever have a young person who qualifies as either of these in the US after Trump) never see a Google search ranking again. 

Instead, imagine they only see source-identified LLM results (so they can locate the richest original sources without violating fair use, as 4.0 and 5.0 both allow). These kids would learn that the best answer to their most complex query is one that is the most truthfully and mathematically related to their needs.

The opposite of mansplaining, perhaps? More like listening carefully, considering the millions of options any worthy question generates, and expressing the answer using the most mathematically pure prose ever.

We will have a brilliant group of trusting, truth-seeking 14 year olds for the first time since Crosby Stills Nash & Young sang “Teach Your Children Well.”