HubertManne

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[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

The less results is a feature. Again when it works the currated list should be stuff you would have landed on by evaluating snippets. Look. If I search for something I do a search then scroll through results. I may or may not find some links to go to. I go to them and if any are promising I maybe make them a new tab but if not I modify the wording of the search and this thing can repeat a few times but usually less than three. In the end I tend to have about three websites I use. The chatbot acts like asking someone to look into it. When they get back to you they give you the "answer" but you talk with them and go over what they found to make sure. Why? Because if you were ok with them going forward then you would just give them that role. Its the same thing with the chatbot. Its like an assitant but you are responsible for the output and need to evaluate it. It can save time but does not always. I have asked someone to do something and after evaluation I have to do it myself because it was not good enough and I go send them to do something else or have them shadow me while I do the thing. The nice thing with the chatbot is you don't need to make sure its time is being utilized efficiently so you don't need to give it a new task and it does not have the capability of shadowing you (if it did then jobs would really be in trouble.)

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 1 points 4 months ago

This is where you have to check out the reference links it gives as if they were search results and the less you know the more you have to do it. I mean people have been webMDing for a long time. None of these things allow folks to stop critical thinking. If anything it requires it even more. This was actually one of my things with ai and work. The idea is for it to allow people with less knowledge to do things and to me its kinda the reverse.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 1 points 4 months ago (4 children)

You go to the sites just like you would with the snippets and if they don't pan out you can rephrase or just go back to a normal search. This is what I meant by a level of abstraction. You can skip the scroll and check what it gives you and if its good you save time (much like the snippets saved time) and if not you are no worse and you correct or go slightly older school. As much as I agree the chatbots can be wrong I don't find them to usually be off base. They generally find pretty decent resources. Now when they are wrong they can be really wrong but its no different from someone searching and just using the first return without going through the results and evaluating each link. It reminds me when a neighbor in the dorms was explaining html to me as he was making a site and I was like. Why? Just use gopher.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 34 points 4 months ago

Everyones initial use of chatbots should be on the thing they are most knowledgable about so they can get an idea of how wrong it can be and how it can be useful but you have to treat it like some eager wet behind the ears intern just did for you.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 1 points 4 months ago (6 children)

See just like a normal search its up to you to evaluate it. ai search wise is as I said another abstraction. Not using it is like turning off the little snipets search engines do nowadays and going back to just clicking an each and every link. The problem is people just taking the response as gospel with no critical thought.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 1 points 4 months ago (8 children)

its fine as long as it gives references to check out. I mean its not fine because of the energy usage but if that is solved I would use it for search. again as long as it tells me sources.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 57 points 4 months ago (8 children)

I really don't get it. These things are brand new. How can anyone get so into these things so quickly. I don't take advice from people I barely know, much less ones that can be so easily and quickly reprogrammed.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 6 points 4 months ago

I mean no one walks over me but I do get the sorta. oh thats cute. Im not so sure im kind though as much as polite and looking at things in terms of what works and whats right.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 7 points 4 months ago

I have not had one and so Im like. I don't know if it would bother me, but then again. I look for addresses and if I don't find them I skip that listing and I demand that quick calls be scheduled. So Im guessing I might start avoiding places once I experience this. Its not really a risk per se as there is pretty much unlimited things to apply to.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 1 points 4 months ago (10 children)

If we are talking chatbots I see them as another level of abstraction to search and is useful but I have concerns on the energy use. Other uses I have encountered is just sorta a convenience thing. Where it can do a bunch of things that individual software can do but at a one stop shop. I have not directly been involved in other aspects but im aware how they are baked into things like facial recognition and tracking and such.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

yeah but I lost my poor meatball.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 6 points 5 months ago

Its already technically habitable. The knife and some associated islands that stick up and sorta point toward south america have year around settlements but they are basically army bases. They have schools and post offices and such though.

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