• TXL@sopuli.xyz
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    19 hours ago

    It might be able to give you tables or otherwise collated sets of information about multiple products etc.

    I don’t know if Google does, but LLMs can. Also do unit conversions. You probably still want to check the critical ones. It’s a bit like using an encyclopedia or a catalog except more convenient and even less reliable.

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      13 hours ago

      You can do unit conversions with powertoys on windows, spotlight on mac and whatever they call the nifty search bar on various Linux desktop environments without even hitting the internet with exactly the same convenience as an llm. Doing discrete things like that with an llm inference is the most inefficient and stupid way to do them.

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        3 hours ago

        All things were doable before. The point is that they were manual extra steps.

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          28 minutes ago

          They weren’t though. You put stuff in the search bar and it detected you were asking about unit conversion and gave you an answer, without ever involving an llm. Are you being dense on purpose?

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      19 hours ago

      Google had a feature for converting units way before the AI boom and there are multiple websites that do conversions and calculations with real logic instead of LLM approximation.

      It is more like asking a random person who will answer whether they know the right answer or not. An encyclopedia or catalog at least have some time of a time frame context of when they were published.

      Putting the data into tables and other formats isn’t helpful if the data is wrong!