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• Jhex@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  The last thing I googled is how to measure dress shirt size. Do you need context and nuance for everything you Google?

  if AI is answering, yes.

  Do you prefer to click on the seo optimized first page results that are full of ads and read through a nonsense article…

  No, but that’s not what i claimed so you can have your strawman back

  Most of the Internet is NOT intellectual writing, it’s blog spam to answer your daily curiosities and practical needs. A sufficienty trained model is a really good (and environmentally friendly) alternative.

  Let me know when we get one. In the meantime, enjoy your thick, glue riddled, pizza sauce

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  • 3abas@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Let me know when we get one. In the meantime, enjoy your thick, glue riddled, pizza sauce

    What? That’s just stupid, like I’m not remotely claiming they are intelligent, but to dismiss their utility completely is just idiotic. How long do you think the plug your ears strategy will work for?

    Pick any model that has come out this year and ask if my example query or any similar daily curiosity you would Google, and show me how it gives you “thick, glue riddled, pizza sauce”. Show me a single gpt 3.5 comparable model that can’t answer that query with sufficient accuracy.

    if AI is answering, yes.

    You’re being obtuse. You don’t need nuance in trying to figure out what size collar you should buy.

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    • Jhex@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      but to dismiss their utility completely is just idiotic.

      not what I said at all. I simply stated AI answers cannot be trusted without verifying them which makes them a lot less useful

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      • 3abas@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        You’re moving the goalposts. You said you need nuance in how to measure a shirt size, you’re arguing just to argue.

        If a model ever starts answering these curiosities inaccurately, it would be an insufficient model for that task and wouldn’t be used for it. You would immediately notice this is a bad model when it tells you to measure your neck to get a sleeve length.

        Am I making sense? If the model starts giving people bad answers, people will notice when reality hits them in the face.

        So I’m making the assertion that many models today are already sufficient for accurately answering daily curiosities about modern life.

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