Comment by andai

Fascinating. Last summer, inspired by AutoGPT, I made a simple Python script that does a web search for a query and uses that to answer the user's question. Looking at this I'm thinking, I could take the web results and ask it to reformat them in the style of Wikipedia, and wondering how that compares.

(I built it because ChatGPT couldn't search the web yet. When Phind launched a few weeks later, my project was basically obsolete!)

It seems the main improvement this paper has over that naive approach is the quality of the inputs, i.e. using "trusted sources" rather than random web results. (They appear to get their sources from Wikipedia itself?)

I'm not sure how much value all the other steps in the process add though.