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Chatbot letdown: Hype hits rocky reality (www.axios.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (20 children)

There are a handful of use cases I've seen generative AI be useful

Searching
Partner programming (how do I...)
Chatbot (as a novelty thought, gets boring quick, and the only great ways of controlling it in a way that would be safe for business is by adding more ai)

And a few more probably.

I spent about 6 months deep diving into how it all worked. I was having dread that it would take my job and was determined to learn about it. What I learned is that there are many many serious pitfalls that seem to be more or less ignored or unknown by businesses and people covering it.

I won't say it's as bad as blockchain, there are usages for it, but the hype is pretty damn close. Business thinking it will save them billions and they can start getting rid of developers. Tech bros lining up to say it's going to bring on the singularity.

Eh. It's cool. I wouldn't say it's going to bring the second coming of Jesus.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I've refused to indulge in using them for searching. Do they cite their sources now? All I've seen are screenshots where it appears you're just supposed to take their word for it. Curious if that's changed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Some like Phind or Perplexity cite their sources. And they give you directly the answer you're looking for without having to search it in a mess of "subscribe to our newsletter", "other articles that may interest you", 3 paragraphs of "if you read this article, you will know what you want to know", "special promotion for you",…

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

I may grudgingly try it then. lol Though I've gotten quite good at filtering out the chaff from search results.

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