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By using your brain and a web search engine / searchable book index in your library / time or even asking a question somewhere public?
by zekica 2y ago
By using your brain and a web search engine / searchable book index in your library / time or even asking a question somewhere public?
- roygbiv2 2y agoIf it's been indexed by a Web search engine surely it's in a training dataset. The most popular Web search engines are the least efficient way of finding answers these days.
- wongarsu 2y agoBut just because it's in the training set doesn't mean the model retains the knowledge. It acquires information that is frequently mentioned and random tidbits of everything else. The rest can be compensated with the 20 web searches models more get. That's great when you want a react dropdown, but for that detail that's mentioned in one Russian-speaking forum and can otherwise only be reduced by analysing the leaked Windows XP source code AI will continue to struggle for a bit. Of course AI is incredibly useful both for reading foreign language forums and for analysing complex code bases for original research. AI is great for supercharging traditional research