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Yeah, that's true in many fields with these AI agents. They demo well, but when you put them to actual work they fall right on their face. Even worse, the har
by jandrese 2y ago
Yeah, that's true in many fields with these AI agents. They demo well, but when you put them to actual work they fall right on their face. Even worse, the harder the task you set for them the more they lie to you. It's like hiring a junior dev from one of those highly regimented societies where it's more important to save face than to get the job done.
- aprilthird2021 2y agoYour last sentence feels kind of spot on. The lack of transparency around confidence in the answer makes it hard to use (and I know it would not be simple to add such a thing)
- hackernewds 2y agosounds like a skill issue to be honest. you could probably tell the assistant to just ask you questions when information is missing instead
- ryoshu 2y agoProgramming is easy. Asking the right question is hard. People don't know what questions to ask.
- aprilthird2021 2y agoBut it doesn't know when information is missing
- dimitri-vs 2y agoHave you actually tried this? What happens is it will very often ask you questions at irrelevant times so you start ignoring the questions and it becomes wasted space. Even OpenAI hasn't figured it out, because their Deep Research always asks questions before starting the search.
- Xelynega 2y agoIt's almost as if they're not trying to market to the people actually using the products, but trying to convince investors of features that don't exist
- ilrwbwrkhv 2y agoIts the good old Elon musk playbook spread out across the industry.
- brookst 2y agoSomeone should coin a term for this very new phenomenon. Maybe “vaporware”?
- alfalfasprout 2y agoYep it's "full self driving in 1 year" all over again.