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Phind-405B and faster, high quality AI answers for everyone

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Re: Phind-405B and faster, high quality AI answers for everyone

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I've been using Phind this past week and it's been excellent . One of our vendors insisted on whitelisting the IPs we were going to call them from, and our deployments went through AWS copilot/Fargate directly to the public subnets. Management had fired the only person with infrastructure experience a few months ago (very small company), and nobody left knew anything about networking. Within about a week, Phind broug…

How does it compare to Perplexity or even plain vanilla ChatGPT? Did you specifically seek to use Phind because you weren't satisfied with others? Or did it just happen to be the first one you used?

Just happened to be the first one I used!

The day after this thread hit the front page, I tried perlexity.ai b/c Phind was overloaded with traffic and not responding. It was ok, but not quite as helpful. Too hard to tell whether that's a fair judgment of the services or just because I don't have as much to ask as I did a week ago though.

Re: Phind-405B and faster, high quality AI answers for everyone

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Thank you!

Hey can you enhance the "clear history" button so that it doesn't delete your pinned threads? Also if you can improve the threads area with folders for better organization that would be awesome. Great work on the product btw!

Great feedback!

Re: Phind-405B and faster, high quality AI answers for everyone

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In my tests, it does hallucinate answers, even with Phind 70B. For example, I asked for bluetooth earplugs that have easy battery replacements. It always kept giving me answers for earplugs with I know have their battery soldered into the casing. Tbf, perplexity also fails at this question.

‘Easy battery replacements’ is pretty subjective. This feels like one of those error that demonstrate how good the tech is, because it’s being used for very specific and subjective requests

Can you name some earbuds where we could disagree whether it is easy or not to replace the battery?

Re: Phind-405B and faster, high quality AI answers for everyone

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That’s great to hear! What are you asking it?

These are the types of questions I want to ask it: > What degrees are held by each of the current Fortune 100 CEOs? > What job did each of the current NFL GMs hold before their current position? > Which genre would each of the current Billboard Hot 100 songs be considered part of? > How many recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom were born outside of the US? > Which US car company has the most models in thei…

Part of the problem will not be solved by LLMs but maybe hiding aspects of one running. LLMs basically "think" "out loud" as it processes and produces tokens.

The amount of thought required to answer any of those questions is pretty high, especially because they are all sizeable lists. It is going to take a lot of thinking out loud, and detailed training data covering all those items, to do that well.

Re: Phind-405B and faster, high quality AI answers for everyone

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Absolutely. Behaviour that in normal life in clean societies would be "eliciting violence": automated hypocritical lying, apologizing in form and not in substance, making statements based on fictional value instead of truthfulness...

What?

What "what"? Did the rest of the comments clarify the points to you or should I formulate a

"I am so sorry and heartbroken about having suggested that to play a sound you should use the, as you now inform me, non existing command and parameter `oboe --weird-format mysound.snd`, I'll check my information more thoroughly next time and make sure it will not happen again"...

Re: Phind-405B and faster, high quality AI answers for everyone

#156

Phind continues to be my favorite AI-enhanced search engine. They do a really nice job giving answers to technical questions with links to references where I can verify the answer or learn more detail. Some recent examples from my history: what video formats does mastodon support? https://www.phind.com/search?cache=jpa8gv7lv54orvpu2c7j1b5j compare xfs and ext4fs https://www.phind.com/search?cache=h9rmhe6ddav1bnb2odtc…

I'm a Brave Search enjoyer for similar reasons. It's easy to switch between normal search and LLM-powered search when you prefer one over the other.

Re: Phind-405B and faster, high quality AI answers for everyone

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Phind continues to be my favorite AI-enhanced search engine. They do a really nice job giving answers to technical questions with links to references where I can verify the answer or learn more detail. Some recent examples from my history: what video formats does mastodon support? https://www.phind.com/search?cache=jpa8gv7lv54orvpu2c7j1b5j compare xfs and ext4fs https://www.phind.com/search?cache=h9rmhe6ddav1bnb2odtc…

In my tests, it does hallucinate answers, even with Phind 70B. For example, I asked for bluetooth earplugs that have easy battery replacements. It always kept giving me answers for earplugs with I know have their battery soldered into the casing. Tbf, perplexity also fails at this question.

If you ask it questions about software that doesn't occupy wide swaths of stack overflow, it tends to hallucinate features of the language too. I asked for some details regarding policies in Chef and it went on a long, confident diatribe about the "policy" resource (which does not exist, nor does anything even kind of similar to it AFAIK).

Re: Phind-405B and faster, high quality AI answers for everyone

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What?

What "what"? Did the rest of the comments clarify the points to you or should I formulate a " I am so sorry and heartbroken about having suggested that to play a sound you should use the, as you now inform me, non existing command and parameter `oboe --weird-format mysound.snd`, I'll check my information more thoroughly next time and make sure it will not happen again "...

I mean I'm just not sure what you're saying. What does "eliciting violence" and "clean society" mean?

Are you ok?

When a web site says "Sorry, page not found" do you start punching your monitor?

When the delivery guy leaves a note saying "Sorry we missed you" do you go to the depot to beat up the employees?

Re: Phind-405B and faster, high quality AI answers for everyone

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What "what"? Did the rest of the comments clarify the points to you or should I formulate a " I am so sorry and heartbroken about having suggested that to play a sound you should use the, as you now inform me, non existing command and parameter `oboe --weird-format mysound.snd`, I'll check my information more thoroughly next time and make sure it will not happen again "...

I mean I'm just not sure what you're saying. What does "eliciting violence" and "clean society" mean? Are you ok? When a web site says "Sorry, page not found" do you start punching your monitor? When the delivery guy leaves a note saying "Sorry we missed you" do you go to the depot to beat up the employees?

> What does "eliciting violence" and "clean society" mean

I think you are on a good trail to having understood what they meant.

The use of 'sorry' is not generally a problem because it is normally framed within expected behaviour and it can be taken as adequate for a true representation, or not blatantly false. But you could imagine scenarios in which the term would be misused into inappropriate formality or manipulation and yes, disrespect is "eliciting violence". You normally work a way in the situation to avoid violence - that is another story.

In "sorry, page not found" 'sorry' is the descriptor for a state (i.e. "not the better case"); in "sorry we missed you" it is just courtesy - and it does not generally cover fault or negligence. But look: there are regions that adopt "your call is important to us", and regions that tend to avoid it - because the suspect of it being inappropriate (false) can be strong.

The outputs of LLMs I have used frequently passes the threshold, and possibly their structural engineering - if you had in front of you a worker, in flesh and bones, that in its outputs wrote plausible fiction ("I imagined a command `oboe` because it sounded good in the story") as opposed to answering your question, but under the veneer of answering questions (which implies, outputting relevant world assessments, Truth based), that would be a right "sore" for "sorry". The anthropomorphic features of LLMs compromise the quality of their outputs in terms of form, especially in solution-finding attempts that become loops of "This is the solution" // "Are you sure?" // "Definitely" // "It is not" // "Oh, I'm so sorry! It will not happen again. This is the solution" (loop...).

Edit: it seems you may have also asked for clarifications about the contextual expression «clean societies». Those societies cybernetically healthy, in which feedback mechanisms work properly to fine-tune general mechanisms - with particular regard to fixing individual, then collective behaviour.

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