> I think it has replaced search quite quickly.
I really don't get this one. Between the ludicrous energy waste and answers that are confidently wrong, I don't see why anybody would prefer to get their information from am LLM.
Voice recognition is an apt example though. It has it's place, like texting my wife from the car without having to look at my phone, and it's obviously a boon to accessibility, but I wouldn't want to have it needlessly jammed into every workflow. I don't get people's willingness to place so much trust in a statistical language model that does a pretty good job of pretending to know things.
I've replaced 80% of searching by asking LLMs. The LLM product generally does a search for you and then gives you the info.
Inserting the LLM into the process exponentially increases the energy expenditure, and it may be confidently wrong in its analysis of the results. What is the upside? Do you just want a chat interface on everything?