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Answering your questions accurately and factually

Question answering is one of Andi's most powerful features.

Andi pioneered factually-grounded question answering using generative AI, and we've learned a lot working with our early Andi community about how to get it right over the last year and a half. We set a very high bar for answering questions correctly.

What Andi is not

Andi is designed from the ground up to not generate the sort of made-up rubbish and fake sources that you see with GPT-based chatbots.

And we take a very different approach to the so-called "AI answers" that have recently been tacked on to other old-school search engines. These use an old approach called WebGPT that uses keyword search results added to GPT-chat.

Tacking GPT-based answers on top of traditional keyword search as an afterthought produces wrong answers, because you're combining the hallucination of GPT-based models with the unfiltered misinformation and spam of the web. Traditional web search is full of bad content. So Google, Bing and others are combining the confident BS of ChatGPT with all the clickbait, misinformation and SEO content marketing spam on the Internet, for the worst of both worlds.

Andi has a better way to factually answer questions

Andi uses a different approach that thinks first, then answers. It finds all the right information needed and analyses it first. Only then does it try to answer the question. Rather than lots of unrelated waffle, Andi answers directly, concisely and factually, explaining and summarizing the information from the best sources.

How to ask good questions

Andi can do fast keyword searches like other search engines. But with its question answering and summarization skills, it can also do much more.

You can ask Andi questions like you would a friend who happens to be a smart research expert. The more specific your question and the details you include, the better it will do.

Unlike regular keyword searches, Andi will spend a lot more time to research these question (up to 10+ seconds) and find the exact answer or information if it can, and present it along with the full search results.

You can ask complex or even multi-part questions. Andi does best answering when you ask in regular plain language (not "googlese"). The more specific the question and the more detail you provide, the better the answer will be. Better questions = much better answers.

Examples of questions you can ask

Here are some examples of the kinds of questions you can ask Andi:

• What is the gdp per capita of china vs new zealand?

• how much of the world's electricity supply now comes from wind turbines and solar panels?

• What indicator predicts a recession, and is the US heading experiencing one?

• Why did elon musk buy twitter and how is it working out?

• How many refugees have fled ukraine now?

• How did Paul Graham's spam filter work and what technology did it use? Explain to me like a programmer

• How long would it take to walk to the moon?

How to ask questions in other languages

Andi's support for different languages with question answering is only very basic right now. We have lots of work to do on internationalization and localization. But just include a question mark ("?") at the end if you'd like to ask Andi to try in another language. It normally does pretty well, even now!