Comment on The people like AI because they treat it like a search engine.

• Lembot_0006@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  How? And don’t those image searches have LLMs under the hood?

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  • morto@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    When you see something you have no idea what it is, you just take a photo and do the reverse search, finding other similar photos and the name of the thing. You don’t even need to spend time describing what you see and won’t have a chance of getting a wrong confident answer. Reverse image search exists for more than a decade and don’t use llms

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    • Lembot_0006@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      ML is ML. No matter if it is LLM or not. And the question “What is this thing?” covers a negligibly tiny percent of search requests.

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      • morto@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It’s not all the same. Application-specific ml models tend to be much smaller and demand much less resources than llms. They also tend to be more precise.

        And the question “What is this thing?” covers a negligibly tiny percent of search requests.

        I was just addressing the given example

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