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Is it surprising that asking a coding tool that writes code to manipulate its own settings in a way it was not built to do produces bad output? Can you ask your
by bastawhiz 2y ago
Is it surprising that asking a coding tool that writes code to manipulate its own settings in a way it was not built to do produces bad output? Can you ask your Google Home to delete your Google account? Or tell Siri to turn off Hey Siri?
- redserk 2y agoSiri will tell you how by giving you the exact steps and a link to the documentation. I just tried it on 18.1 Beta.
- throwaway314155 2y agoThis is specifically the version of Siri that now _uses_ semantic retrieval over learned embeddings of existing corpus of documentation. There's no reason Github couldn't implement something similar (except that it's not a high priority for them to do so).
- edent 2y agoI've literally just said "Alexa - how do I disable notifications?" It answered with accurate information. If I ask it something it doesn't know, it says "Hmm. I don't know that." So, yeah, it is surprising that this supposedly advanced AI doesn't have the same level of functionality as a smart speaker.
- infecto 2y agoIts not that surprising. These are two very different technologies. Alexa/Siri point to explicit functionality and the LLM chat in this example is open ended. Luckily I have been using the internet for a few years, I saw the triple dots and clicked those and immediately saw one option was to hide the Copilot bubble. To each there own, I have been using these tools for a while and have a grasp of what is possible and not.
- mangamadaiyan 2y agoNot really. GH advertises that its Copilot can go through documentation and fetch relevant results. I don't see anything wrong in asking the copilot to fetch any kind of results from its own documentation.