I take back everything I said in my previous post because of this
vanilla duckduck has embedded ai as well
Uh I thought that DuckDuckGo was an unpopular opinion
What doth thy mean
Further erasing the source of truth so it can be rewritten by the highest bidder.
Are there any plans to release an AI that’s not dogshit?
The problem isn’t that AI is dogshit. In fact there are many things that have been revolutionized because of AI. Our understanding of biology has catapulted forward decades because of new models.
The problem is marketing. Those few use cases, while truely amazing, are only useful for a few things. The marketing of AI is horrible, throwing it into every product whether it makes sense or not. Throwing more money at it when it doesn’t make sense in the vain hopes that will eventually make it profitable. Then manipulating the market so that alternatives to your bad product aren’t feasible.
These silicon valley narcissists need AI to be profitable more than AI can become profitable.
AlphaFold is not an LLM tho
I think homey is using a more expanded AI definition then the “Looks inside: It’s a LLM” one that is generally used today.
Perhaps. My issue is more with the muddy waters when it comes to “AI”. It might be because it’s near to my profession, and I frequently encounter a fervent, yet clueless enthusiasm. When that same lack of specificity is used to argue for what they don’t really understand either, for example:
The problem isn’t that AI is dogshit. In fact there are many things that have been revolutionized because of AI. Our understanding of biology has catapulted forward decades because of new models.
It does beg the question if they understand what they are talking about. “AI is dogshit”, is weird. Are we talking about LLMs here? They are great for a lot of things. They are pretty horrible at doing what most seem to think they are great at, but that’s perhaps a different matter.
Then there is the “Our understanding of biology has catapulted forward decades because of new models”. If we are generalizing “AI models” to include the ones that have contributed to biology, we end up with a definition of “AI” that becomes “model based computational solution optimization”.
Chatbots are a different type of AI entirely tho.
Or in other words, the problem is that AI is dogshit outside the very small range of tasks that it’s good at.
Yes.
I agree with you. I’m working on a novel, and it’s been really helpful for preliminary editing advice, and bouncing ideas off of. Not perfect, but it’s better than no one. And I really don’t understand why it’s not marketed more as a collaborative assistant, rather than something that just does mediocre work for you.
I’m nearly done with book it suggested as research, and i don’t think it could have been a better subject. It’s a great pick for what I needed.
But compared to ChatGTP, Gemini is fucking retarded.
“We, Google, who produce an AI, are now prioritizing AI content in our search engine, in a totally unrelated decision to our AI production, so that we can totally not artificially inflate the imaginary value of AI so as to force more people to use our AI to create content, so it will show in our search engine we’ve gone to lengths to skew results in the favor of AI in to give you the best service imaginable (because its imaginary to think we provide the best of anything)”
I really wish we’d get another president into the office thats willing to take a massive hammer to these big companies and bust them up into shards again… preferably this time making sure they cant T2000 themselves back together into the original whole, thats somehow worse.
you’re gonna use AI whether you like it or not … oh wait, I left google search long ago
Kagi. You?
Ddg
Yesterday, as the goog search-results-page was taking 4-5 seconds to generate the AI-guff at top, it made all the site-links unclickable until AI summary was done. 🚽
(Disclaimer: Was on a random PC)
Self-host SearXNG on your laptop/PC. Your only regret is that you’d wish you’d done this sooner. Both SearXNG and Docker have helpful setup pages that walk you through the process. https://docs.searxng.org/
Anyone got a more burnt or withered version of this?
1 sec let me take a selfie
Any old photo of soot dust will do.
They went from “indexing the world’s information” to “plagiarizing and supplanting the world’s information.”
I guess it’s a good damn thing I don’t use Google anymore.
hear me out.
my job requires me to use AI as a KPI. Now, I don’t have to look for answers on google anymore while I’m at work. I’ll just regurgitate the AI answer.
when I’m at home I’ll use DDG and actually spend time and effort on solutions.
this is an absolute win. work gets zero effort, and I spend my time on more important things like not giving a fuck if capitalism rots from the inside ouy due to AI.
DDG’s non-AI search is still just Google from 10 years ago, which already fucking sucked
so dont use it.
A huge shit sandwich fantasy sold as reality.
Curious: What made you do it for a decade if it wasn’t working so well for you.
Not being snarky here. Just would like to understand what kept you on.
Once upon a time I was opposed to the idea of a “link tax”. These days, at least in the context of websites getting summarized by AI before any traffic can reach them, I’m much more into the idea.
