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If you use AI like a quick answer machine, or quick example machine, they all outdo Google by a large margin. The friction between moving between, and knitting

If you use AI like a quick answer machine, or quick example machine, they all outdo Google by a large margin. The friction between moving between, and knitting different systems and languages together that I don't use frequently enough to be fluent, has been lowered by an order of magnitude or two. Due to small knowledge gaps getting filled the instant I need them to be. The same with getting a basic understanding (or a basic idea) about almost anything. My AI log documents many stupid questions. I have no inhibitions. It is a joy.

ToucanLoucan 2y ago
> If you use AI like a quick answer machine, or quick example machine, they all outdo Google by a large margin. I mean, A) hallucinations still happen, and B) Google sucks anyway. I don't know of anyone at the company still using Google because we're largely an engineering outfit and all were aware as Google's search features slid into uselessness.
- bunderbunder 2y ago
  I find that the code I get from Copilot Chat frequently fails to do exactly what I asked, but it almost always at least hits on the portions of a library that I need to use to solve the problem, and gets me to that result much more quickly than most other ways of searching do these days.
- Nevermark 2y ago
  Hallucinations (or more correctly labelled, confabulation) is a property of human beings as well. We fill in memories because they are not precise, sometimes inaccurately. More to the point, once you know that, having a search engine for ideas that can flexibly discuss them is a tremendous and unprecedented boon. A new tool, many (many) times better than Google ever was for many ordinary, sometimes extraordinary tasks. I don't understand the new gigantic carafe of water is half full viewpoint. Yes, it isn't perfect!? It is still incredibly useful.
  - ToucanLoucan 2y ago
    > Hallucinations (or more correctly labelled, confabulation) is a property of human beings as well. Yeah and if, when I asked a coworker about a thing, he replied with flagrantly wrong bullshit and then doubled-down when criticized, I wouldn't ask him anything after that either.

ToucanLoucan 2y ago

> If you use AI like a quick answer machine, or quick example machine, they all outdo Google by a large margin. I mean, A) hallucinations still happen, and B) Google sucks anyway. I don't know of anyone at the company still using Google because we're largely an engineering outfit and all were aware as Google's search features slid into uselessness.

bunderbunder 2y ago
I find that the code I get from Copilot Chat frequently fails to do exactly what I asked, but it almost always at least hits on the portions of a library that I need to use to solve the problem, and gets me to that result much more quickly than most other ways of searching do these days.
Nevermark 2y ago
Hallucinations (or more correctly labelled, confabulation) is a property of human beings as well. We fill in memories because they are not precise, sometimes inaccurately. More to the point, once you know that, having a search engine for ideas that can flexibly discuss them is a tremendous and unprecedented boon. A new tool, many (many) times better than Google ever was for many ordinary, sometimes extraordinary tasks. I don't understand the new gigantic carafe of water is half full viewpoint. Yes, it isn't perfect!? It is still incredibly useful.
- ToucanLoucan 2y ago
  > Hallucinations (or more correctly labelled, confabulation) is a property of human beings as well. Yeah and if, when I asked a coworker about a thing, he replied with flagrantly wrong bullshit and then doubled-down when criticized, I wouldn't ask him anything after that either.