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one thing I always think about is: - a human is a "generally intelligent" being, great. - humans know a lot of things, great. suppose there was a website - h
by endisneigh 4y ago
one thing I always think about is:
- a human is a "generally intelligent" being, great.
- humans know a lot of things, great.
suppose there was a website - human.ai - that let you speak with an actual human and you could ask it questions and it gave you answers. this would be slow since humans do not optimize for processing speed.
for conversation let's say humans would take no longer than 1000ms to respond to your query on this website. excellent.
now, would this site be better than Google? in some ways, way better. but just like a real person, it would require much back and forth to get the intended answer from the human, just like it would with your friend.
I'm convinced there's something missing. precognition + training on your own life?
this is all to say that I'm not sure conversational search is better in general. some sort of precognitive search would be great. with enough context I'm sure you could have a fairly high confidence on what you want next (ironically this is how language models work to some degree, but it needs to be extended generally speaking)
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- jtbayly 4y agoSo, if we just give them access to our email and track us all over the internet, then the results will be personalized and relevant and most correct for each one of us? Sounds great! Sign me up!
- endisneigh 4y agoyou joke, but once computing is fast enough you'll be able to train a model on everything you have without exposing this information to some company, and ask it what you should do with some service enhancing, not being strictly required.
- jazzyjackson 4y agoit's a good thought experiment, but also how Master Gardeners work - for volunteer hours you check a voicemail inbox, do the research, and call the person back with the answer.