search as a core capability of learning intelligence
the capability of searching around to find solutions for a given question is essential for general intelligence
different people has different levels of this kind of capability
a smart people is the one who is able to quickly find answers / solutions
it means they can solve problem by themselves
don’t need supervision, or teaching
they can solve problem faster
for an agent, this is the same
while llm is able to memorize lots of things
many things are never seen before, never appear in training data
so all chatbot today heavily relies on google search to find relevant information
data, indexing, search becomes more important today as accessibility is significantly improved through chatbot