Poll of the Day > What are they doing to google search? (again)

(+) Yeah! (+)

I frequently put a single word or phrase in to check definitions and stuff. But it wants to show me things like movies.

There's also the AI response thing they started using. I'm not going to give up thinking and have faith in that.

Given some of the AI responses I have seen, wise choice.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/f/ff19e1cb.png

Some of the AI responses are good, some are bad. This is what teachers were fearmongering to us about Wikipedia, you really have to look at another source or you can't be sure if it's true or not

To be fair you have to start somewhere.

captpackrat posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/f/ff19e1cb.png

Apparently we can add math to the list of things AI is bad at.

rjsilverthorn posted...

Apparently we can add math to the list of things AI is bad at.

Which is baffling, because math is supposed to be the thing that computers are good at.

Damn_Underscore posted...

Some of the AI responses are good, some are bad. This is what teachers were fearmongering to us about Wikipedia, you really have to look at another source or you can't be sure if it's true or not

It differs from Wikipedia, though, in that it doesn't provide citations or otherwise reference further material that can be used to evaluate what it's saying. Toss in that nobody's overseeing it, and you've got a situation where the only reasonable (or even safe, in some cases) course of action is to assume that it's wrong and ignore it. Given that, why does it exist?

Presumably one day it will be able give you information and if you say give me sources it will give them

Damn_Underscore posted...

Presumably one day it will be able give you information and if you say give me sources it will give them

By sourcing itself

Damn_Underscore posted...

Presumably one day it will be able give you information and if you say give me sources it will give them

The problem with that is that LLM-based AI doesn't have discrete sources. It has a data set, consisting of enormous numbers of data points whose content and context it interprets to find correlations that it uses to provide answers to questions that resemble those contexts. If it provides every source that contributed to a given answer, that could easily end up being millions of data points, which is just too many to verify unless it's actually your job to debug the AI. If doing research using AI turns into debugging it by searching through all relevant sources yourself, you might as well just cut out the middleman and do your own research by searching through relevant sources yourself, eliminating the AI's power cost, ethical concerns, and the ability for the AI's owner to skim a bit of value off of the top of the research you're doing to refine it.