I challenged a friend and his 22€ open ai subscription.
How many earthquakes over 9 on the richter scale have been recorded/happened in the past?
The answer was correct, but it took 3,5 minutes to “think”. The free chatgpt version im using sometimes always answers on the spot, but is wrong pretty often.
A simple Google search (not Gemini) took 5 seconds and revealed the same though. Fuck AI
I don’t know what thinking profile your friend was using but asking ChatGPT that with the mixed tasks profile showed an almost immediate result with absolutely no thinking required.
LLM’s are a tool, like with any tool there is a learning curve, and in my opinion the majority of “AI” users are unable to use the tool properly, and then get mad at the tool. Or like you, want to disparage the use of an LLM so they bait the LLM with tasks that it knows will fail or hallucinate on. To me that’s like blaming the table saw because it cut off your finger. Do the majority of people need a paid account? No.
Are there people working in the Tech sector who use an LLM everyday, who have corporate accounts and paid accounts at home for their own projects: absolutely. I know a large number of them, most are Lemmy users as well. But because there is so much negativity from the open source crowd, all these engineers are afraid to discuss all the ways it makes our lives easier. So we get a disproportionate amount of negativity. I’m getting to a point where the amount of AI shit posting on here is like the amount of vegan shit posting on Reddit. And just as stupid.
I’m personally using a self hosted searxng. Google was just to prove a point. The solution was a simple count on wikiedia away.
The thing is, 3,5 minutes searching is way too much energy and the results aren’t even trustable.
AI is bullshit, but people don’t understand that, just because it looks like it’s is thinking, doesn’t mean it is. That’s a human bias. It’s still just generating statistical answers.
We should avoid ai content as much as we can. Maybe this bubble will burst… hopefully
To be fair, and I’m not a fan of LLMs either, but if someone uses it as a search tool, then that’s just even worse than attempting to use it for something it might actually be helpful and useful for.
Slap them and make them cancel it, if they replace search engines with it. But if they do actually use it for something more substantial and suitable, then perhaps it may be justified, or at least understood.
I challenged a friend and his 22€ open ai subscription.
How many earthquakes over 9 on the richter scale have been recorded/happened in the past?
The answer was correct, but it took 3,5 minutes to “think”. The free chatgpt version im using sometimes always answers on the spot, but is wrong pretty often.
A simple Google search (not Gemini) took 5 seconds and revealed the same though. Fuck AI
I don’t know what thinking profile your friend was using but asking ChatGPT that with the mixed tasks profile showed an almost immediate result with absolutely no thinking required.
LLM’s are a tool, like with any tool there is a learning curve, and in my opinion the majority of “AI” users are unable to use the tool properly, and then get mad at the tool. Or like you, want to disparage the use of an LLM so they bait the LLM with tasks that it knows will fail or hallucinate on. To me that’s like blaming the table saw because it cut off your finger. Do the majority of people need a paid account? No.
Are there people working in the Tech sector who use an LLM everyday, who have corporate accounts and paid accounts at home for their own projects: absolutely. I know a large number of them, most are Lemmy users as well. But because there is so much negativity from the open source crowd, all these engineers are afraid to discuss all the ways it makes our lives easier. So we get a disproportionate amount of negativity. I’m getting to a point where the amount of AI shit posting on here is like the amount of vegan shit posting on Reddit. And just as stupid.
And also fuck Google! Switch to another search engine that doesn’t fuck with you or the planet.
For example: Ecosia. https://www.ecosia.org/
I’m personally using a self hosted searxng. Google was just to prove a point. The solution was a simple count on wikiedia away.
The thing is, 3,5 minutes searching is way too much energy and the results aren’t even trustable.
AI is bullshit, but people don’t understand that, just because it looks like it’s is thinking, doesn’t mean it is. That’s a human bias. It’s still just generating statistical answers.
We should avoid ai content as much as we can. Maybe this bubble will burst… hopefully
To be fair, and I’m not a fan of LLMs either, but if someone uses it as a search tool, then that’s just even worse than attempting to use it for something it might actually be helpful and useful for.
Slap them and make them cancel it, if they replace search engines with it. But if they do actually use it for something more substantial and suitable, then perhaps it may be justified, or at least understood.
Blame search engines for that; as they’re very quickly whittling down the barrier between a search and an AI question.
Isn’t Google like an AI search engine nowadays? Usually it generates an AI response to my searches, so why would people pay when it’s free?