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We’ve trained a whole generation of people to “prompt” Google to get what they need from the internet with a few keywords (often autocompleted before you’re don
by supafastcoder 3y ago
We’ve trained a whole generation of people to “prompt” Google to get what they need from the internet with a few keywords (often autocompleted before you’re done typing), so asking them to now start writing elaborate prose to get what they want is just going to take a lot of time. I also think this is a temporary phase where we’ll converge back to keyword autocompletion soon (or other more efficient ways of interaction).
- emodendroket 3y agoOne thing I've noticed is people other than me are more likely to phrase Google searches in natural language anyway rather than using keywords.
- al_borland 3y agoEvery time I see someone do this I start wondering how common it is. Is saying to Google, "Please show me the finial score of last nights Detroit Pistons game." more common than my "Pistons game" query that gets me the same result? I've also seen this with various voice assistants.
- emodendroket 3y agoSeems like maybe Ask Jeeves just got undercut by regular search engines learning to ignore irrelevant query words
- aseipp 3y agoMy best friend does this and it both drives me insane sometimes but also blows my mind. It's how he has always used Google search. He does not use keywords at all, he simply states the generalized phrase out loud. Like if we're talking about a movie with Dean Winters in it, and I say "You know, it's the guy from those auto insurance commercials who would pretend to be a little girl in a driving accident." And he goes, "Hey Google" to his phone -- "Funny talented actor who pretends to be little girl in a funny auto insurance commercial" and "Dean Winters" is the first result or whatever.
- emodendroket 3y agoI think this is the thing people miss when they complain Google search has gotten worse. It's gotten to be more frustrating if you have a laser-focused query and it keeps bringing up related stuff that's not what you wanted. But for that kind of meandering query it's incredibly effective.
- imiric 3y agoConsidering speech-to-text models are fairly sophisticated and reliable nowadays, it's likely that the primary input of LLMs will be audio. We do ultimately want AI interfaces to be conversational. Text input will surely be smarter as well, but I doubt we will converge on using keywords and shortcuts.
- openaikillers 3y ago[dead]