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Everything these AIs are great at are a bad fit for search. Some fool anxiously raced to spend a ton of money on this and I bet there was a chorus of engineers,

Everything these AIs are great at are a bad fit for search. Some fool anxiously raced to spend a ton of money on this and I bet there was a chorus of engineers, designers, and product people who were asking, “what the heck do you want us to do with this?!” It’s shiny and powerful and it kinda looks like it can give you answers to stuff, so we must have one and shove it into our product as fast as possible! Once the dust settles and Microsoft and Google have successfully shipped a somewhat helpful but completely brain dead husk, our attention will be wherever the empowered, raw, learning, unforgetting AIs hang out.

maguirre 4y ago
I am of two minds on the one hand it feels like you might be right. On the other hand if it helps us reduce the noise in searches it will be a huge leap forward
- dylan604 4y ago
  How low we have sunk that we'll accept a chatbot search result because it looks and sounds good even though the data is absolutely not the correct answer just because googs has ruined search with sole consideration being ads rather than the results
  - s3p 4y ago
    You would be the only one who has sunk. Ads on search results are not the problem, garbage web results are. SEO optimized trash that is designed to be at the top result of google for no reason. And having this be half of the first page of results for many popular searches leads people down a rabbit hole of appending "site:reddit.com" or using flags to hide entire words in search results. Having an AI to synthesize the most important parts of a search is a net positive to society, not a disadvantage.
throwawaylinux 4y ago
There have been a chorus of (presumably) engineers and other "experts" on here saying how incredible ChatGPT is and how it's going to allow companies to fire half their workforces and make everyone have superhuman capabilities and productivity.
CamperBob2 4y ago
"Some fool anxiously raced to spend a ton of money on this and I bet there was a chorus of engineers, designers, and product people who were asking, “what the heck do you want us to do with this?!” -- My dad, when the Apple II came out
- Waterluvian 4y ago
  Good gracious… Touché. slow clap

maguirre 4y ago

I am of two minds on the one hand it feels like you might be right. On the other hand if it helps us reduce the noise in searches it will be a huge leap forward

dylan604 4y ago
How low we have sunk that we'll accept a chatbot search result because it looks and sounds good even though the data is absolutely not the correct answer just because googs has ruined search with sole consideration being ads rather than the results
- s3p 4y ago
  You would be the only one who has sunk. Ads on search results are not the problem, garbage web results are. SEO optimized trash that is designed to be at the top result of google for no reason. And having this be half of the first page of results for many popular searches leads people down a rabbit hole of appending "site:reddit.com" or using flags to hide entire words in search results. Having an AI to synthesize the most important parts of a search is a net positive to society, not a disadvantage.

throwawaylinux 4y ago

There have been a chorus of (presumably) engineers and other "experts" on here saying how incredible ChatGPT is and how it's going to allow companies to fire half their workforces and make everyone have superhuman capabilities and productivity.

CamperBob2 4y ago

"Some fool anxiously raced to spend a ton of money on this and I bet there was a chorus of engineers, designers, and product people who were asking, “what the heck do you want us to do with this?!” -- My dad, when the Apple II came out

Waterluvian 4y ago
Good gracious… Touché. slow clap