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Spending thousands of words to essentially say "ChatGPT's search feature works pretty well now" with mundane examples like finding UK cake pop availability or i
by BoredPositron 1y ago
Spending thousands of words to essentially say "ChatGPT's search feature works pretty well now" with mundane examples like finding UK cake pop availability or identifying buildings from train windows. This has been done before by less capable models - it's just a rehash. Should we expect newer models getting worse? The breathless "Research Goblin" framing and detailed play-by-play of basic web searches feels like padding to make a now routine tool use seem revolutionary.
- lbotos 1y agoSimon says “what I used to Google I now try AI thinking models” I didn’t feel that he was framing it as _revolutionary_ it felt more evolutionary. Simon, for every person miffed about your writing, there is another person like me today who said “ok, I guess I should sign up for Simon’s newsletter.” Keep it up. It’s easy to be a hater on da internet. 42lux, if you have better articles on AI progress do please link them so we can all benefit. I wanna know when my research goblin can run on my box with 2x 3090s.
- BoredPositron 1y agoIf you want posts like this you can just follow AI influencers on LinkedIn.
- Deuter8 1y ago[dead]
- simonw 1y agoThe mundane examples were the point. I'm not picking things to show it in the best possible light, I picked a representative sample of the ways I've been using it. I called out the terrible scatter plot of the latitude/longitude points because it helped show that this thing has its own flaws. I know so many people who are convinced that ChatGPT's search feature is entirely useless. This post is mainly for them.
- BoredPositron 1y ago[flagged]
- simonw 1y agoThe thing about models getting incrementally better is that occasionally they cross a milestone where something that didn't work before starts being useful. Those are the kinds of things I look out for and try to write about.
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- typpilol 1y agoYes this feels very AI like too. A ton of prose for very little substance lol. I skipped half the article to get to the point, went back and re-read and didn't miss much.