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Missed opportunity to name an LLM "Jeeves" and finally live up to the vision.
by sixo 5mo ago
Missed opportunity to name an LLM "Jeeves" and finally live up to the vision.
- NewJazz 5mo agoMaybe this is a precursor to them selling the mark to someone who (at least thinks they) can capitalize on it.
- pailingems 5mo agoTwo years ago I made a rudimentary chatbot/agent for our long running IRC channel using the OpenAI API as the "brain". Its nickname is Jeeves.
- DANmode 5mo agoYou have no idea how correct you are… Ask Jeeves launched in 1997 as a natural language query model! and until about 2000…some people preferred it! Edit: and after that its indexing and results were clowned ruthlessly, but that doesn’t change what I’m saying!
- johnzim 5mo agoOne of the best improvements to my life was adding the following to my LLM Prompt: "Please respond as Jeeves from the P.G. Wodehouse stories". Not only are the LLMs quite excellent at emulating the valet, the actual dynamic fits fascinatingly well. Jeeves was always both perspicacious and enthusiastic about whatever task he was given - be it ironing a shirt or seeing to Bertie's continued wellbeing.
- nomilk 5mo agoI feel dumb but I’d not previously made the Ask Jeeves and Jeeves from P.G. Wodehouse novels connection!
- chatmasta 5mo agoAnd I’ve just made the Woodhouse from Archer connection!
- dmd 5mo agoIt is absolutely wild and baffling to me that people don’t make connections like that, and so I wonder what kind of equally obvious (to other people) connections I haven’t made.
- ndsipa_pomu 5mo agoArcher has a whole load of obscure literary references that are easy to miss. e.g. in the very first episode, the flight attendant's dog is named Abelard > The name Abelard is a reference to Pierre Abélard, the French philosopher and monk, who is famous for his work in the fields of dialectic and theology, along with his tragic romance with Héloise d’Argenteuil. Additionally, Abélard was known for the studies of the Greeks, which is referenced when Abelard (the dog) "laughs" at Sterling's Greek joke. You can find a list of cultural references here: https://archer.fandom.com/wiki/Cultural_References https://archer.fandom.com/wiki/Cultural_References
- gizajob 5mo agoI think about six months ago I commented on an AI thread to the effect of “I’m happy that after a 30 year effort and hundreds of billions spent, AskJeeves finally works as intended” - Jeeves is totally ripe for LLMing. Completely baffling that after keeping ask.com going for this entire time (some two and a half decades of irrelevance) they shut it down at the point at which it can actually be made to work.
- elphinstone 5mo agoIt's a name best saved for an embodied humanobot that can do laundry, etc., too, as well as answer questions, screen calls, etc.
- jerbearito 5mo agoWOW. 12 year old me would've loved this.
- thom 5mo agoThere was a period in the early 2000s where AskJeeves’ answer to the question “what is the meaning of life?” was an old Eliezer Yudkowsky essay saying that because we weren’t smart enough to work out the meaning of life ourselves, our highest purpose was to build smarter AIs who might be able to answer definitively. Time to close the loop!
- dijksterhuis 5mo ago42
- rickcarlino 5mo agoI have felt the same way about defunct search engine HotBot
- roryirvine 5mo agoI'm not sure that LLM responses would be much improved by being rendered in eye-searing combinations of chartreuse and magenta...
- weird-eye-issue 5mo agoYeah they could have just spun up their own version of ChatGPT/Perplexity to at least try that
- dangus 5mo agoNot doing business with a 3 letter domain is insane. You’d probably make $10k a month just parking ads on ask.com. You’re absolutely right: toss up an AI chat with some ads in a sidebar using an open source model and call it a day.
- Morromist 5mo agoIt might be more correct to name the LLM Ask Gussie Fink-Nottle. "Oh, dash it! I didn't mean to delete your project, I've been in such a dreadful funk today. So sorry."
- disqard 5mo agoI'm loving the Wodehouse references in this thread. In case there are folks unaware of it, there is an excellent TV series called "Jeeves and Wooster" (Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie) -- highly recommended!
- nullsanity 5mo ago[dead]