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Maybe we have a different Google AI down here in south Texas, but the Google search AI results I receive are laughably bad. It has made up tags for cli functio

Maybe we have a different Google AI down here in south Texas, but the Google search AI results I receive are laughably bad. It has made up tags for cli functions, suggested nonexistent functions with usage instructions, it’s given me operations in the wrong order, and my personal favorite it gave me a code example in the wrong language (think replying Visual Basic for C).

cpncrunch 1y ago
Its about half and half. Really depends on whether there are good results that gemini can summarize. If not, it gets creative. Chatgpt is generally much better.
- echelon 1y ago
  ChatGPT is better, but Google owns all of the panes of glass (for now). We've never seen a "Dog Pile vs Yahoo" battle when the giants are of this scale. It'll be interesting to see if Google can catch up with ChatGPT (seems likely) and if they simply win by default because they're in all of the places (also seems likely). It'd be pretty wild for ChatGPT to win, honestly.
  - reilly3000 1y ago
    People are forming deep personal attachments to it. They think all their chat history is in context and Act as if it knows them personally and has formed an opinion about them. They are replacing social interaction with it. I doubt someone in that deep would want to switch to something new very easily.
    - rwyinuse 1y ago
      I doubt that's a very high percentage of users. Most people use it as a productivity-boosting tool like search engine.
      - echelon 1y ago
        It's a spectrum. A lot of people who are unfamiliar with how the technology works talk about "my GPT". Google that phrase, or start watching for it to crop up in conversation. On the other end of the spectrum, there are lots of tiny little pockets like this: https://www.reddit.com/r/MyBoyfriendIsAI/ https://www.reddit.com/r/MyBoyfriendIsAI/
      - cpncrunch 1y ago
        I think a bigger issue is people just believing all the stuff that AI tells them, without bothering to check it.
gundmc 1y ago
The AI Overviews (on the main SRP) is pretty hit or miss. The new "AI Mode" (separate tab) is _very_ good.
- jiggawatts 1y ago
  It cracks me up that I can only find animated marketing bs pages about this that show nothing of interest, but I can't actually find how to use it despite minutes of looking. Well done Google Marketing, well done. Another product carefully kept away from the grubby little hands of potential users!
  - Barbing 1y ago
    They even disabled it if you didn’t use the right combination of browser and willingness to share your data. Seems a lot more like general availability on my end now, though, these past few days. One can try Google dot com, slash AIMode. Not nearly as good as using Gemini 2.5 pro which they do offer for free but I forget where. AI studio? So many ways to access it.

cpncrunch 1y ago

Its about half and half. Really depends on whether there are good results that gemini can summarize. If not, it gets creative. Chatgpt is generally much better.

echelon 1y ago
ChatGPT is better, but Google owns all of the panes of glass (for now). We've never seen a "Dog Pile vs Yahoo" battle when the giants are of this scale. It'll be interesting to see if Google can catch up with ChatGPT (seems likely) and if they simply win by default because they're in all of the places (also seems likely). It'd be pretty wild for ChatGPT to win, honestly.
- reilly3000 1y ago
  People are forming deep personal attachments to it. They think all their chat history is in context and Act as if it knows them personally and has formed an opinion about them. They are replacing social interaction with it. I doubt someone in that deep would want to switch to something new very easily.
  - rwyinuse 1y ago
    I doubt that's a very high percentage of users. Most people use it as a productivity-boosting tool like search engine.
    - echelon 1y ago
      It's a spectrum. A lot of people who are unfamiliar with how the technology works talk about "my GPT". Google that phrase, or start watching for it to crop up in conversation. On the other end of the spectrum, there are lots of tiny little pockets like this: https://www.reddit.com/r/MyBoyfriendIsAI/ https://www.reddit.com/r/MyBoyfriendIsAI/
    - cpncrunch 1y ago
      I think a bigger issue is people just believing all the stuff that AI tells them, without bothering to check it.

gundmc 1y ago

The AI Overviews (on the main SRP) is pretty hit or miss. The new "AI Mode" (separate tab) is _very_ good.

jiggawatts 1y ago
It cracks me up that I can only find animated marketing bs pages about this that show nothing of interest, but I can't actually find how to use it despite minutes of looking. Well done Google Marketing, well done. Another product carefully kept away from the grubby little hands of potential users!
- Barbing 1y ago
  They even disabled it if you didn’t use the right combination of browser and willingness to share your data. Seems a lot more like general availability on my end now, though, these past few days. One can try Google dot com, slash AIMode. Not nearly as good as using Gemini 2.5 pro which they do offer for free but I forget where. AI studio? So many ways to access it.