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Must upvote this. I sometimes ask Copilot instead of startpage.com especially when I find it hard to formulate those kind of keywords for a classical googly sea
by DemocracyFTW2 2y ago
Must upvote this. I sometimes ask Copilot instead of startpage.com especially when I find it hard to formulate those kind of keywords for a classical googly search engine that would probably lead to meaningful results, and LLMs can be very helpful with that. The other day I had copilot write me a bookmarklet that will cause the focused DOM element on a web page get highlighted with an outline; nothing compared to those success stories you get to read but I find it impressive it did just work—copy, paste, done.
But the downside is that when you ask questions about a subject matter that you deeply care for and are well-versed in, or when you have specific formal requests (like the other day when I asked for a semicolon-delimited enumeration of terms and it kept giving me lists with no semicolons), or sometimes when you ask the LLM to avoid certain terms or stylistic mannerisms—those are often moments when the cracks in the system become glaringly obvious.
And that's where the problem lies when using LLMs to learn new things, you never know where it goes off the rails. Sure, that random blog post on the internet has much the same problem; maybe it's just because of extended exposition that I tend to believe I can rather tell an incompetent blog post from a relevant one than doing the same with answers by ChatXYZ.