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Why use the word "blindly". It looks like it uses a LLM. Possibly one fine tuned on Amazon reviews and product data. It can also answer other questions. Is that
by fancyfredbot 3y ago
Why use the word "blindly". It looks like it uses a LLM. Possibly one fine tuned on Amazon reviews and product data. It can also answer other questions. Is that bad? Why should Amazon be embarrassed about this?
- torlok 3y agoBecause it's a search box, not a question box, and there's no way it's retrained each time somebody posts a review, thus is worse than a database query (arguably, because this is HN).
- amznburn 3y agoExactly this. And I'm pretty sure the person that pointed this out was fired.
- op00to 3y agoIt’s not a search box. The dialogue box literally says “Ask about this product”. https://pasteboard.co/GSwyajjcF78W.jpg https://pasteboard.co/GSwyajjcF78W.jpg
- apetresc 3y agoIt explicitly is a question box, and it doesn't need to be "retrained" every time someone posts a review, they're most likely being embedded, summarized, and put into a vector database that the question box can RAG. This is close to a textbook example of where an LLM is useful. It's interesting seeing just how knee-jerk-y some people's irrational hatred of this has become.