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"I asked GPT-3"

Imagine that in near future we might get an AI powered service that let's you ask for opinion on any product on the market and then have a conversation about it. Manufacturers will then produce special ads just to target the recommendation engine of those AI's.

Inb4 we already have google - sure, but having an AI write you personalized opinion with concrete arguments is whole new level of market influence.

Can't wait for apple's powered AI to argue with amazon's one about whether or not samsung's Bixby is better or worse then Microsoft's Cortana

Yeah, this reminded me of those admonitions we used to get to consider the deep thoughts of young children, about e.g. politics or whatever. Maybe GPT-3 is next, after covid has forced everyone to spend more time exposed to the thoughts of those children. After they get GPT-3 to write ads so they can fire all the marketers, we'll get quite enough GPT-3 "thoughts" and be encouraged to consider the thoughts of some other unthinking entity...

My anecdata:

This is the computer my company gave me after they went out of business in 2010. It was a two year old computer then.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Review-Dell-Latitude-E6500-Not...

I had 8GB of RAM in mine. I put Windows 10 on it and used it as a Plex server until 2016. I recently cleaned it up and gave it to my parents mostly for Chrome and to use one of my Office 365 licenses. It runs amazingly well and the 15 inch 1920x1200 (not a typo) is beautiful.

I’ve probably had 5 Dell laptops since 2010 for various reasons and they have all been cleaned up, and given to someone who is still using them for basic Office + browsing.

I recommend Dells wholeheartedly to people on a budget. I also recommend Backblaze. You can get a cheap good enough Dell for $400.

My personal take is using any x86 computer after the M1 Macs came out is like using a flip phone after the iPhone was introduced. I really encourage people to buy at least an M1 MacBook Air now.

All what I see I could tell the same for Asus (in particular for a Vivobook I pay something close to a mac air, it's so deceiving in comparison)

>>Consumer _anything_ is going to be hit or miss.

I kind of agree with that philosophy.

I have friends who had bad customer experience with Bell for their cell, have switched to Rogers, and for the rest of their lives will yell that Bell is horrible and Rogers is awesome. But I also have friends who did exactly the opposite thing from Rogers to Bell.

I have friends who have had bad personal experience with TD Canada bank teller / customer service, and switched to CIBC, and will spend the rest of their lives telling everybody how TD is awful and CIBC is awesome. And I also have friends with exact opposite experience.

One of my friendships completely deteriorated when they warned me to NEVER EVER shop at Canadian Tire. Why? In 1978 her dad had a bad experience with a Canadian Tire car shop in Regina. I made a mistake of engaging and discussing there are over 500 stores with tens of thousands of employees and millions of different experiences, EVERY company will have statistical error rate, and "This one time at a bandcamp something bad happened" might not form the pinnacle of my decision making process (not that bluntly of course:), I got a look like I'm an alien being and what KIND of friend doesn't immediately take another person's word to not shop somehwere, no follow-up questions asked???!?!!!11

Anyway :).

Every company will have some percentage of bad customer experiences.

Stories, even reviews, are a poor and maybe even deceptive way for a person to decide how to weigh their risks.

I don't know of a perfect way because we don't have perfect information - what is Dell error rate compared to Lenovo compared to HP? I do agree that every company will have an error rate especially in their consumer stuff where we are explicitly not willing to pay for quality, and only pay, at best, for superficial specs or attributes.

Nothing on that website has shown me any statistics or argument that Dell is special. Like others, I've had good experience with Dell business models, just like with Lenovo business models and HP business models. And I've tended to have bad experience with plasticky crap of consumer models.