It's like getting the info from some rando at some party. It's to be lightly penciled in.

If you need nuance and background, wikipedia is NOT the place to get that. Maybe you can get some good links at the bottom of the page to real information, but that can be hit or miss also.

What's even crazier is for a lot of things we already had a quick result overview. Like if you wanted the definition of a word. For a long time it was the case that you could just "define socks" and you'd get a widget at the top with the definition. Why would you replace that with AI, and have an AI process that request every single time someone wants to define socks instead of just keeping the old widget!?

I sure would hope that those AI overviews are cached. Querying an LLMs for every repeated search sounds very wasteful

And had a useful answer about 1 in 20 times.

It's not just wrong. It's plausibly wrong, which is worse. It's the difference between giving someone a recipe for cookies where you fuck up the ratio of flour and sugar vs giving someone a recipe for cooking where you've jokingly put "50 pounds of gunpowder" in there as an ingredient. People know the obvious wrong thing is wrong. But they'll bake the fucked up ratio cookies and then just not know what went wrong.

It would have been a legal play IF the lineman had checked in with the referee as an "eligible" receiver before the play. But evidently he screwed up and report in. It's not a common play in the NFL, but every team has such a play on hand.

So that's kind of a "it needs context" question.

Fucking hell, lol

Ooo, they're cramming in the ads now eh?

Lmao, I guess my internal ad filter is still working because I had to look at that twice to notice it and wondered if there was a new Halloween movie coming out this year or something. Agreed, fuck that shit.

The funniest part is I've gotten better answers from duckeuckgo and Bing's AI back in the day because they both didn't treat reddit as a reputable source of info lmao.

Dunno how the scene is now, but I wouldn't be surprised if its the same.

My go to. I used to use Google for harder to search stuff, but these days Google isnt worth the try anymore.

Better yet:

https://noai.duckduckgo.com/

and you can add it as a custom search for firefox/waterfox as:

https://noai.duckduckgo.com/?q=%s

Or Qwant. It's Euroopan and doesn't even have the AI option.

I gave Claude a document to proofread today. It came back with an error. Clause said I used "told" instead of "tell." The error ended up being Claude's error, as I used "tell," and it was just confused.

This was the first time I ever used Claude. Just wanted to see what it was like. It did apologize, in fairness. But yeah, it's clearly fallible. I guess I don't understand it well enough to get how it read the document incorrectly. I'm baffled.

LLMs fundamentally can't learn. They will continue to fail the same thing over and over until they guess and check into a response that appears coherent and correct.

THIS! I recall somebody doing contract review and having AI summarize the contracts just to see how well they did... The AI left out some really important stuff and also occasionally hallucinated stuff that wasn't there. Summarizing a contract should be pretty black-n-white -- if AI can't handle that properly, I'm not going to trust its summary of something more complex.

Encarta FTW

That website was such a timesink. Amazing.

The Wikipedia marathon doesn't stop til you get to Hitler.

stop googling, start ducking.

I know the rankings change like every month, but isn't Gemini one of the "dumber" ones? I've only tried it a few times and got annoyed, but it's been a while.

They are great to tell you the words you need to search for something; they are great for analyzing "vibes" out of texts; they are reasonably good to generate you a link to some site that answers a hard to find question, traditional search would be better if there were any one around that isn't completely broken.

As someone with ADHD, I disagree. Sometimes the information is important, and I don't want to have to dig through a wall of text to find it. One thing that annoys me about normies when they write, is that they tend to blab on forever on things that don't matter instead of getting straight to the point.

If people wouldn't use so many unnecessary words, I wouldn't need a god damn LLM to summarize their ramblings into something my brain can actually parse.

Join the elite: create an account and pay $120/year to a private American company for search results.

A search engine you have to sign up for?

Edit: its a paid for service hence the login required. Looks like its starts at $5/mo for 300 searches per month. How many search do you all average per month?

I tried them and looked into them. They do something, but nothing like the curated searches they try to sell you on.