I don't liked this AI answers in the beginning, but now they are to handy and help to not scroll and choose website by website.
DuckDuckGo makes its 'no-AI' search engine easier to access as its traffic booms
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Re: DuckDuckGo makes its 'no-AI' search engine easier to access as its traffic booms
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Pretty wild to see this in a technology forum . The whole idea of technology is to do more with less. It inherently reduces the set of people who are still economically valuable. Have you ever wondered how many livelihoods computer programmers have destroyed? Now that programming itself is on the chopping block, suddenly some moral line has been crossed?
>The whole idea of technology is to do more with less No, that's not the whole idea of technology. Technology exists to, and this is a non-exhaustive list: fostering creativity, play, enabling autonomy and self sufficiency, connecting people to each other, collaboration, building skills and enhancing people's natural capacities. That's a smalls et of examples of what one could imagine technology to do. Are these AI t…
It absolutely is. Technology is what lets you farm more with less resources. Manufacture more with less materials. Get more things done in less time. Fostering creativity and play? Yeah, by getting more things done in less time, so as to free up that time for all the fun stuff you actually want to do. Of course, to others this "fun stuff" is just yet another inefficiency to be eliminated.
We might love technology and think it has intrinsic value, but the rest of the world could not care less. It's about maximizing profits and minimizing costs. That includes the costs of human labor. No hacker here thinks of the amazon mechanical turk employees that AI will certainly get rid of, for example. I bet the hackers here will be at their most self-satisfied when they finally manage to replace doctors.
So it is indeed pretty rich to read complaints on so called Hacker News about hacking itself being automated away by AI models. It's a very arrogant perspective. Did hackers think they were above this? Did they think they were irreplaceable? Hilarious.
Re: DuckDuckGo makes its 'no-AI' search engine easier to access as its traffic booms
#163Earlier quoted context omitted.
Anecdote: Most of the anti-AI sentiment I hear is from internet communities like BlueSky. I don't find this generalizable.
Bluesky is insufferable. Literally any issue in any program is labelled "#vibecoded" by these clearly genius-level engineers who've never shipped a bug.
Well, the AIs are supposed to find and fix the bugs too. So now what's our excuse?
Re: DuckDuckGo makes its 'no-AI' search engine easier to access as its traffic booms
#164Earlier quoted context omitted.
I fail to understand why people think LLMs working in tokens (and thus having a hard time counting letters) is such a huge gotcha. Ask it to write you a bash script that counts the amount of p's in a word you input it'll do it fine. Then ask it to write that script in C, JavaScript, Lua, and a few other languages. Then ask your family members to do the same. The gotcha can go both ways.
LLMs are directly marketed as not requiring understanding of how it works. The PR is "Its magic!" So people try to treat it like magic, and don't like when it detonates a fireball in a room that is too small. Not requiring technical knowledge is the selling point. That it doesn't need you to think.
Questions like this are irrational though. Nobody wants to know how many of a type of letter are in a word. Ask it a real question from your real life that needs a real answer it's fairly magic at getting the correct answer. And if you don't think so at this point my guess is you simply haven't used it enough.
Re: DuckDuckGo makes its 'no-AI' search engine easier to access as its traffic booms
#165Earlier quoted context omitted.
LLMs are directly marketed as not requiring understanding of how it works. The PR is "Its magic!" So people try to treat it like magic, and don't like when it detonates a fireball in a room that is too small. Not requiring technical knowledge is the selling point. That it doesn't need you to think.
Questions like this are irrational though. Nobody wants to know how many of a type of letter are in a word. Ask it a real question from your real life that needs a real answer it's fairly magic at getting the correct answer. And if you don't think so at this point my guess is you simply haven't used it enough.
Counting letters in words is absolutely a real question. Its trivia!
Half our TV is made up of trivia, and being able to generate trivia answer/question pairs is something both TV, and pubs, will try to do.
Re: DuckDuckGo makes its 'no-AI' search engine easier to access as its traffic booms
#166Earlier quoted context omitted.
Questions like this are irrational though. Nobody wants to know how many of a type of letter are in a word. Ask it a real question from your real life that needs a real answer it's fairly magic at getting the correct answer. And if you don't think so at this point my guess is you simply haven't used it enough.
Counting letters in words is absolutely a real question. Its trivia! Half our TV is made up of trivia, and being able to generate trivia answer/question pairs is something both TV, and pubs, will try to do.
Imagine seeing this as a jeapordy question. What is 2 Rs.
LLMs have some limitations same as humans. The limitations are very different between the two which is why LLMs are very useful to us. I personally can't write a perfectly functional fairly complex webpage in less than 30 seconds, but I can count letters. I'll let the LLM make the webpage and keep count of the letters for a trivia contest if needed.
Also get the latest version of chatgpt (extended thinking) to make you a 'tiptop 100% verified Trivia stack for (x TV show)' and you'll get better than what most pubs will come up with. I did this for the simpsons when someone said it couldn't be done because that sounded like something an LLM would be excellent at. Turns out I was right.
Re: DuckDuckGo makes its 'no-AI' search engine easier to access as its traffic booms
#167Earlier quoted context omitted.
A lot of people who are fed up with AI use ChatGPT. Being fed up with something doesn't necessarily mean they start pretending it doesn't exist. Furthermore, where did that number come from? What does "active" mean? What does "user" mean?
> Furthermore, where did that number come from? What does "active" mean? What does "user" mean? https://openai.com/index/scaling-ai-for-everyone/ weekly and monthly active users are common industry terms. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_users
Sure but how do those map to real people?
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