Quick information retrieval and competitive intelligence
Information retrieval and competitive intelligence are yet more fields where ChatGPT is a game-changer.
When we talk about information retrieval, though, we need to differentiate between three main scenarios:
- The retrieval that happens at ChatGPT’s knowledge level, meaning that that specific information requested by the user was part of the training set the model was trained on
- The retrieval that happens when using the WebSearch plugin available in ChatGPT, which enables the model to navigate the web and retrieve up-to-date information
- The retrieval that happens when using an external knowledge source that we upload to ChatGPT
In this section, we are going to focus on the first two scenarios.
One example involves asking ChatGPT to provide a quick summary or review of a book we might be interested in reading (in this case, the Harry Potter series is part of the model’s training...
