I think i’ve only once flat out told one it was wrong about a specific assertion I quoted and it immediately was able to find its way to what I knew to be the correct claim.

I just wonder what would happen if i was in fact mistaken and I told it confidently it was wrong without elaborating

    • affenlehrer@feddit.org
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      12 hours ago

      You can use LLMs for things that where not possible or very difficult with traditional search engines.

      E.g. I wanted to know what kind of brake my daughters bike used. Traditionally I’d either have to research all possible brake types and compare then with her bike or take a photo and post it to a forum or reddit or something and hope someone knows the answer.

      With ChatGPT (I only use the free version) I just took a photo and asked what kind of break it was and got a (actually good) list of 2 possible brakes. It was one of the two.

      Very convenient. However, I’m aware how LLMs work and what their limitations are. Of course also the environmental issues.

      BTW: It was a band brake.

    • CommanderCloon@lemmy.ml
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      11 hours ago

      Because search engines have been dogshit for the past 2 years (give or take~); AI need to be steered hard but as long as you’re asking for sources (and don’t just read what they’re saying) you can get an answer out of them.

      I only find what I’m searching for on Google if I already know the exact keywords for what I’m specifically looking for (…and even then…); if I don’t know the exact terms of what I’m looking for (like @affenlehrer@feddit.org with his bike brake issue) then google is useless nowadays, which wasn’t always true. So now my process is to google first, ask an AI second, and I end up using AIs way more than I would like.