• DonutsRMeh@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    All ai is is a super fast web search with algorithms for some reasoning. It’s not black magic.

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      No, it’s not. It’s a word predictor trained on most of the web. On its own it’s a pretty bad search engine because it can’t reliably produce the training data (that would be overfitting). What it’s kind of good at is predicting what the result would look like if someone asked a somewhat novel question. But then it’s not that good at producing the actual answer to that question, only imitating what the answer would look like.

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        2 months ago

        100%. It’s a super fast web crawler. These are buzz words capitalists throw around to make some more money. I don’t know if you’ve heard of the bullshit that anthropic was throwing around about claude threatening to “blackmail” employees if they took it offline. Lmao.

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          Calling it a web crawler is just innacurate. You can give it access to a web search engine, which is how the “AI search engines” work, but LLMs can’t access the internet on their own. They’re completely self-contained unless you give them tools that let them do other things.