I understand this provides a conversation interface for interacting with internet scale data (ChatGPT), but is there any benefit to this over searching in Google then clicking on the top link, (avoiding the ad) clicking accept my cookies, reading the header, scrolling down, Xing out of premium subscription, reading rest of article, repeat for the 4 next links?

Ok bro.

> Limitations: ... Finally, while we report strong results on individual datasets, we have not yet demonstrated generalization to unseen data, an essential step toward general TSLMs.

From the paper itself...

Imagine you asked ChatGPT a question but it could only give you answers from a single blog.