March 29, 2025 at 5:00 am
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Fantasy baseball and old habits
March 30, 2025 at 2:53 pm
I agree with the hallucination issue. It's not great. I am not sure it's possible, but if they would actually keep track of how many times certain tokencombinations occurred during training, they could at least give some confidence ratings for the answer, per token. If you could use that to create coloured text, it would provide a visual clue of how reliable the information is. Dark green: seen often, reputable sources, etc. Bright red: it's a wild guess, we only saw this combination once.
March 31, 2025 at 12:01 pm
The problem, ronaldkunenborg, though, is who decides? Who decides Source A is reputable and Source B isn't for a given topic? One person might consider anything coming from StackOverflow to be 100% reputable, while someone else might feel SO is decent but not entirely reputable, lets say for answering SQL Server questions.
Thus far my level of trust in any "AI" answers is very, very much in the "take it with a large grain of salt, and verify through other means / search engines." Good enough maybe to get the ball rolling on answering a question, but trust it? Nope.
As for the editorial itself, I'm still very firmly in the "use a search engine, not an "AI" for questions," largely because if I'm looking for some info, I don't want to have a "conversation," I want an answer (or, answers) and I want it quick. Generally speaking, a quick glance at the initial summary most search engines give for a given result will be enough to let me decide "click it / don't click it."
Granted, SEO has managed to push a lot of drek to the top of the results, which is...
Annoying, to say the least, so it might take a bit more to find GOOD results...
March 31, 2025 at 12:05 pm
--Double post--
April 17, 2025 at 9:18 pm
It seems that we get an AI-generated summary of even the simplest of searches, regardless of the search engine we choose. There doesn't seem to be a user-settable default we can change to say "only use AI to produce a summary if I ask for one". The defaul of always generating one is a waste of electricity.
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