ChatGPT doesn't feel like formulating a query, it feels like talking to a human.

Google is extremely impressive at figuring out how to interpret your query.

It almost feels like it intelligently understands your query.

But it doesn't! It's a carefully crafted illusion that cleverly stitches together the piecemeal insights from a very large group of users into the wisdom of the crowd.

Google is a mirror that focuses the wisdom of the crowds but is not itself wise.

To use it well, you have to formulate a query that is likely to overlap with content and queries other people have done before.

"How would other people structure this question?" to ensure you can draft off what happened before.

Contrast that with LLMs; they have absorbed a kind of reasoning about the content; a wisdom of the crowds, but also its own kind of emergent wisdom.

That means that you can talk to LLMs more like you talk to a real person.