It's interesting how people are reacting to the OpenAI and Gemini demos on a purely technical achievement level without realizing it.
The audience ooh'd and aah'd when Gemini identified the speaker on the table when asked "what makes sound?"
Indeed, that's very impressive as a technical accomplishment. It's amazing for an AI.
The problem is that Google immediately took the leap to "this will help you in your day-to-day life!" & put it on all our phones.
Bruh I know what a speaker looks like.
Often when we don't know something, my wife will search it on her phone. This used to involve her clicking a result or two and then announcing the answer.
These days, she just reads out the AI summary that appears at the top.
I shit you know, the last 10 times she did this, all 10 of them were wrong. And wrong in a subtle way that only stands out if you know what's right, or try to apply the wrong answer to actually solve a problem.
It's all very impressive but it's consistently not useful.
@rodhilton This is what I keep running into... and now I see it on about a third of the websites that I click through to find answers to questions.
In those instances, I skim about a quarter of the way through and then identify that it was definitely written by AI and then have to piece out.
I wish there was some way to certify stuff written by humans. At least them dumb stuff can be attributed to authors I can avoid. AI is everywhere now.
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