loriDec 8, 2022

A while back I saw an r/woodworking post where someone was asking for resources for woodworking plans. A few people told them to Google it.

If you Google it you get absolute horseshit. Just page after page of useless results. So we need to stop the fucking "let me google that for you" era and recognize that search is entirely broken in the modern day. We NEED human recommendations and information sharing now more than ever.

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I started as an engineer back before WWW, when the internet was mostly chat rooms and MUDs.I was lucky enough to find a research librarian in my company who was a wizard at finding obscure but very relevant papers and books. My position on AI, inspired by that experience and my own search experience since, is that searches need human curators to be optimally successful. And the best searches are based on semantics, not string comparison or Bayesian likelihood of the next word.
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