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> But would it have improved my comprehension? The research says no. I don’t know, I find myself doing things I would’ve never done before AI. I find myself d

> But would it have improved my comprehension? The research says no. I don’t know, I find myself doing things I would’ve never done before AI. I find myself doing more projects outside of work. I discover new problem domains and are less afraid of tackling the unknown. I code in languages I don’t know and start learning how they work. I can get anything explained to me, at any time, in a somewhat coherent manner, by a tutor that won’t get tired or annoyed. Look— I’m not exactly thinking AI is free of criticism, but it’s definitely a revolution in access to information and at least to me that’s a big deal.

reticulates 3mo ago
> it’s definitely a revolution in access to information Did you mean: Google?
- socalgal2 3mo ago
  Google was the previous revolution. AI is the next. I get info from LLMs way better than I generally got from Google, at least for some large subset of things I used to try to get from Google.
- sergiomattei 3mo ago
  An example from last night. If I Google “how much is 7KwH”, I get a list of calculator websites for converting units. If I ask an LLM, it tells me “your usage is pretty low for an apartment, good job!” The latter is exactly the question I had in mind. Not even close.
  - ButlerianJihad 3mo ago
    Did you deliberately screw up the capitalization so thoroughly that it bears no resemblance to the standard abbreviations? Are you one of those people who writes about "mb" and "kb" for computers, too? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilowatt-hour https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilowatt-hour Obviously, LLMs are quite tolerant of typos, and even ignore mis-capitalization, or it may have at least tried to correct your improper usages.
    - annoyingbanana 3mo ago
      “what’s unnecessary is prickly commenters who call out ordinary English writing for no fuckin’ reason except to smell their own fuckin’ farts, so MYOB” this was you less than an hour ago
    - joenot443 2mo ago
      I think it’s unlikely they made that typo deliberately. Similarly, I don’t think you were intentional in misspelling miscapitalization, I figured it was an honest mistake. Is this deliberate miscapitalization thing a behavior you often encounter?
  - reticulates 3mo ago
    You said revolution, that’s barely incremental. If you had googled “apartment electricity usage calculator” you would find many options that provide exactly the information you want without risk of hallucination.
- joenot443 2mo ago
  No, they’re talking about LLMs - they’re a different technology from search engines.

reticulates 3mo ago

> it’s definitely a revolution in access to information Did you mean: Google?

socalgal2 3mo ago
Google was the previous revolution. AI is the next. I get info from LLMs way better than I generally got from Google, at least for some large subset of things I used to try to get from Google.
sergiomattei 3mo ago
An example from last night. If I Google “how much is 7KwH”, I get a list of calculator websites for converting units. If I ask an LLM, it tells me “your usage is pretty low for an apartment, good job!” The latter is exactly the question I had in mind. Not even close.
- ButlerianJihad 3mo ago
  Did you deliberately screw up the capitalization so thoroughly that it bears no resemblance to the standard abbreviations? Are you one of those people who writes about "mb" and "kb" for computers, too? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilowatt-hour https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilowatt-hour Obviously, LLMs are quite tolerant of typos, and even ignore mis-capitalization, or it may have at least tried to correct your improper usages.
  - annoyingbanana 3mo ago
    “what’s unnecessary is prickly commenters who call out ordinary English writing for no fuckin’ reason except to smell their own fuckin’ farts, so MYOB” this was you less than an hour ago
  - joenot443 2mo ago
    I think it’s unlikely they made that typo deliberately. Similarly, I don’t think you were intentional in misspelling miscapitalization, I figured it was an honest mistake. Is this deliberate miscapitalization thing a behavior you often encounter?
- reticulates 3mo ago
  You said revolution, that’s barely incremental. If you had googled “apartment electricity usage calculator” you would find many options that provide exactly the information you want without risk of hallucination.
joenot443 2mo ago
No, they’re talking about LLMs - they’re a different technology from search engines.