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Re: DuckDuckGo Launches DuckAssist

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Post by dbsmith83 »

Kiro wrote: post #12
MadcapJake wrote: post #9

At least here, they are specifically training it on just educational public sources. Seems like a respectable usage of the tech.

What do you mean "at least here"? What's wrong with other usage? They are using OpenAI so they haven't trained it themselves and is just inputting the Wikipedia article as a prompt. I don't see how that is more respectable than literally every other service built on OpenAI.

I think the point is that it should only be used to summarize wikipedia information, and thus harder to use for other ethically murky purposes? But that remains to be seen; I haven't tried it yet.

Re: DuckDuckGo Launches DuckAssist

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Post by monetus »

sct202 wrote: post #16
nerdponx wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It seems like it's meant to be an extra feature and not a replacement for search. This is a good thing and will help DDG reduce dependence on Bing. Of course, maybe dependence on Wikipedia is not so good if you care about accuracy.

Trading 1 Microsoft dependency for another one since they're relying on OpenAI which is now 49% Microsoft owned.

And anthropic, which has google investments. They are bound by licensing not to block some of the Microsoft analytics, but the same might not be true of which NLPs they use.

Re: DuckDuckGo Launches DuckAssist

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Post by dmix »

invpt wrote: post #14

I asked it "what is a memory model in computer science" to see how it handles something slightly obscure. Its answer: > The multi-store model (also known as Atkinson–Shiffrin memory model) is a memory model in computer science that describes the interactions of threads through memory and their shared use of the data. It allows a compiler to perform many important optimizations. > More info in the History and signific…

Maybe it thinks linked sub-references on Wikipedia are more relevant than other information on the computer memory pages. Or maybe it just took "memory model" without the computer context.

Re: DuckDuckGo Launches DuckAssist

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Post by invpt »

dmix wrote: post #36
invpt wrote: post #14

I asked it "what is a memory model in computer science" to see how it handles something slightly obscure. Its answer: > The multi-store model (also known as Atkinson–Shiffrin memory model) is a memory model in computer science that describes the interactions of threads through memory and their shared use of the data. It allows a compiler to perform many important optimizations. > More info in the History and signific…

Maybe it thinks linked sub-references on Wikipedia are more relevant than other information on the computer memory pages. Or maybe it just took "memory model" without the computer context.

Yeah, I think the problem is that the memory model (computer science) article is too short, so the model ended up spitting out information from something seemingly related, i.e., human memory models.

Re: DuckDuckGo Launches DuckAssist

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Post by monetus »

toxik wrote: post #30

Tried it out, pretty disappointing so far. "Is the Collatz conjecture solved?" gave no "intelligent" assist, even though the first result is the Wikipedia page on the Collatz conjecture. "Do cows sleep standing up?" gave an answer of some sort, but very unnatural and not very helpful.

I asked it how old the Arthurian legends were and it said, "I didn't come across that information exactly, but I did find an answer to, how old is King Arthur? King Arthur is believed to have lived in the late 5th and early 6th centuries. More info in the List of Arthurian characters Wikipedia article."

It is using inference somewhat at least.

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