You can do unit conversions with powertoys on windows, spotlight on mac and whatever they call the nifty search bar on various Linux desktop environments without even hitting the internet. Don’t discrete things like that with an llm inference is the most inefficient and stupid way to do them.
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XTL@sopuli.xyz 6 days agoIt might be able to give you tables or otherwise collated sets of information about multiple products etc.
I don’t know if Google does, but LLMs can. Also do unit conversions. You probably still want to check the critical ones. It’s a bit like using an encyclopedia or a catalog except more convenient and even less reliable.
Feyd@programming.dev 5 days ago
alsimoneau@lemmy.ca 5 days ago
On Linux there’s also ‘units’ which is amazing for this.
XTL@sopuli.xyz 5 days ago
All things were doable before. There point is that they were manual extra steps.
Feyd@programming.dev 5 days ago
They weren’t though. You put stuff in the search bar and it detected you were asking about unit conversion and have you an answer, without ever involving an llm. Are you being dense on purpose?
alsimoneau@lemmy.ca 5 days ago
Or go to Wolfram Alpha and gat actual computations done instead of ramblings?
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Google had a feature for converting units way before the AI boom and there are multiple websites that do conversions and calculations with real logic instead of LLM approximation.
It is more like asking a random person who will answer whether they know the right answer or not. An encyclopedia or catalog at least have some time of a time frame context of when they were published.
A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 5 days ago
So does DDG