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How is this different from a less reliable search engine?

• jiggawatts 11mo ago
  AI can interpolate in the space of search results, yielding results in between the hits that a simple text index would return. It is also a fuzzy index with the unique ability to match on multiple poorly specified axes at once in a very high dimensional search space. This is notoriously difficult to code with tradition computer science techniques. Large language models are in some sense optimal at it instead of “just a little bit better than a total failure”, which is what we had before. Just today I needed to find a library I only vaguely remembered from years ago. Gemini found it in seconds based on the loosest description of what it does. That is a technology that is getting difficult to distinguish from magic.