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From your first point, I'd expect you to be using a service that provides the weather for a given latitude and longitude. From your second point, I'd have expe

From your first point, I'd expect you to be using a service that provides the weather for a given latitude and longitude. From your second point, I'd have expected that to fail for Hogwarts or Tatooine. Taken together, it sounds like you're blindly trusting the coordinates generated by AI, and will happily generate correct-looking results for any input. I'd call that hallucinating the weather. If I type in "Springfield" I'm gonna get results but I'm not gonna know if they're mine. This may be an unreasonable level of concern for a fun app.

blixt 2y ago
I do use a service for getting the weather (backend: https://github.com/blixt/sol-mate https://github.com/blixt/sol-mate) Yeah the second part I consider a bonus. Especially because I can use street names or slang for locations that no rigid API supports. > Taken together, it sounds like you're blindly trusting the coordinates generated by AI Actually I guess I do "blindly" trust the AI's coordinates more than a traditional location search service. Not sure how much you've tested it yourself, but I haven't gotten a single false latitude/longitude pair from GPT-4 unless the location was truly ambiguous, in which case it would be one of them. But as a European, I've definitely experienced rigid APIs happily giving me the weather for "Stockholm, NY" which apparently does exist, but wouldn't have been my first option... But yeah, it is just a fun app, so I wouldn't want to make it more rigid either way!
- itishappy 2y ago
  Have you stress tested it? "Springfield" is a very common name in the US. I'd love to know how it handles "Sandwich" as well. Again, probably overboard for a fun app!
  - blixt 2y ago
    They're fair questions, and yeah it will have to disambiguate in such cases. I tried it now and it picked: - Springfield in Illinois - Sandwich in Massachusetts (the exact coords: https://www.google.com/maps/place/41%C2%B045'31.0%22N+70%C2%B029'36.2%22W https://www.google.com/maps/place/41%C2%B045'31.0%22N+70%C2%...) I think that people underestimate how much non-AI technology fails in these cases. And the recovery path is to retry with more specificity in either case.
    - itishappy 2y ago
      > I think that people underestimate how much non-AI technology fails in these cases. That's an excellent point! Just browsed through your code and I see that you're calculating the positions of the sun and moon. Very cool! Really fun project!

blixt 2y ago

I do use a service for getting the weather (backend: https://github.com/blixt/sol-mate https://github.com/blixt/sol-mate) Yeah the second part I consider a bonus. Especially because I can use street names or slang for locations that no rigid API supports. > Taken together, it sounds like you're blindly trusting the coordinates generated by AI Actually I guess I do "blindly" trust the AI's coordinates more than a traditional location search service. Not sure how much you've tested it yourself, but I haven't gotten a single false latitude/longitude pair from GPT-4 unless the location was truly ambiguous, in which case it would be one of them. But as a European, I've definitely experienced rigid APIs happily giving me the weather for "Stockholm, NY" which apparently does exist, but wouldn't have been my first option... But yeah, it is just a fun app, so I wouldn't want to make it more rigid either way!

itishappy 2y ago
Have you stress tested it? "Springfield" is a very common name in the US. I'd love to know how it handles "Sandwich" as well. Again, probably overboard for a fun app!
- blixt 2y ago
  They're fair questions, and yeah it will have to disambiguate in such cases. I tried it now and it picked: - Springfield in Illinois - Sandwich in Massachusetts (the exact coords: https://www.google.com/maps/place/41%C2%B045'31.0%22N+70%C2%B029'36.2%22W https://www.google.com/maps/place/41%C2%B045'31.0%22N+70%C2%...) I think that people underestimate how much non-AI technology fails in these cases. And the recovery path is to retry with more specificity in either case.
  - itishappy 2y ago
    > I think that people underestimate how much non-AI technology fails in these cases. That's an excellent point! Just browsed through your code and I see that you're calculating the positions of the sun and moon. Very cool! Really fun project!