Work with the tool to get best results instead. You wouldn’t do csi style zoom enhance on a jpeg either.
They can and do make extensive use of web search, and since they're pretty good at summarizing structured and unstructured text, this actually works quite well in my experience.
On Amazon available since Sep 2018:
https://www.amazon.de/-/en/C1101-4P-Integrated-Services-Ethe...
But is it the right model? Does the release date actually matter to anyone?
If I ask a factual question of AI it will issue some output. In order for me to check that output, which I am apparently bound to do in all cases, I must check reliable sources, perhaps several. But that is precisely the work I wanted to avoid by using AI. Ergo, the AI has increased my work load because I had the extra useless step of asking the AI. Obviously, I could have simply checked several reliable sources in the first place. I see this as the razor at work.
It ought to be clear now that the use of AI for factual questions entails that it be trustworthy; when you ask an AI a factual question, the work you are hoping to avoid is equal to the work of checking the AI output. Hence, no time can ever be saved by asking factual questions of an untrustworthy AI.
QED
P.S. This argument, and its extensions, occurred to me and my advisors 25 years ago. It caused me to conclude that building anything other than a near perfect AI is pointless, except as a research project to discover the path to a nearly perfect AI. Nearly perfect should be interpreted to be something like "as reliable as the brakes on your car" in terms of MTBF.
I forget who came up with the idea but we could create a database with functions for every use case with the idea to never have to write something already written but finding the one you are looking for (by conventional search) would take more time than writing from scratch.
AI just provides new angles to attack from. It could save time or take more time, bit of a gamble. Examine your cards before placing the bet.
jqpabc123•3h ago
They provide information --- some of which is random in nature and only casually reflective of any truth or reality.
And as this example illustrates, they are far from being trustworthy. Their main achievement is to consistently produce functionally acceptable grammar.
lxgr•3h ago
d4rkn0d3z•1h ago
Is an answer that is correct by chance the same as one that is correct by reason?
JimDabell•3h ago
If I ask an LLM “What is the capital of France?” and it answers “Paris.”, then it has provided an answer by any reasonable definition of the term.
This anti-AI weirdness where people play word games to deny what AI is clearly doing has to stop.
jqpabc123•2m ago
It answered "Mbabane".
There was no mention of the fact that there are actually 2 capitals --- Mbabane (the administrative capital) and Lobamba which serves as the executive seat of government.
The point being --- any "answer" from an LLM is questionable. An an unreliable answer is really not an answer at all.