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ChatGPT use declines as users complain about ‘dumber’ answers, and the reason might be AI’s biggest threat for the future (www.techradar.com)
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ChatGPT use declines as users complain about ‘dumber’ answers, and the reason might be AI’s biggest threat for the future::AI for the smart guy?

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[–] 74 points 3 years ago (4 children)

Back in my day, we used to call ‘prompt engineering’ ‘asking a question’.

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  • [–] 43 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    back in my day, we call it "google fu"

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  • [–] 38 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    And then we had to actively unlearn that google fu because google no longer works with keywords, but rather has an NLP pipeline that expects a question.

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  • [–] 25 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    So that’s why I can’t find shit. I always just use keywords, asking a whole question seems almost wasteful.

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  • [–] 18 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Wow, no wonder most of the old search commands don’t even feel like they work…

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  • [–] 26 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    The last straw in utterly ruining it was when they removed using quotes to get exact matches. That was the only way to cut through the garbage. Now the only use for google search is searching within specific websites that never bothered to make their own decent search function.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago

    Fucking right?!

    It adds this weird abstract where the search keywords the question you ask but that requires you to ask the right question. Sometimes I just need the page that has the most mentions of a specific word or phrase.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    Someone used the phrase "dead-catting" on here the other day, so I went to google to figure out what the hell that meant. It gave me reults for the Catechism. Between the actual phrase "dead cat bounce" and "Catechism", it chose the latter to show me.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    google fu

    That reminds me of something. I don't remember precisely why, nor what line it resonates with in my brain, but it reminds me of this guy from The Core (movie):
    Rat from movie The Core Image link for compatibility

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  • [–] 13 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    They got to have a special termonology because what they do is oh so special. Some AI users act like they're Louise Banks from the movie Arrival cracking the code to an alien language or something. And I don't think it's far fetched to assume they're often from the same breed who had NFT monkeys as their twitter pfp about 18 months ago.

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