• snooggums@lemmy.world
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    Dunn acknowledges that he could have found the same answer with the right Google search terms, but says that the point is that he didn’t have to: ChatGPT immediately returned what he was looking for even though he described it vaguely.

    I remember when google used to return the right results even when the search was vague.

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      Its so stupid, google “bipartie matching algorithm” and the second result is a stack overflow where the second answer is the Hungarian algorithm…

      So every programmer would have found that immediately using the traditional methodology…

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      Right? I was thinking that exactly. I remember being in awe by how well google could do that, and now I actually dread having to use it and sift through all the crap.

      I guess the same will happen to “AI” once they try to monetize it with ads.

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    The question he asked to ChatGPT doesn’t seem particularly vague to me. He used various algorithm names and concepts such that all he really asked is “I want a fruit like an apple but not as round” and it responded with “pear”

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    Imagine an article for TF1:

    A valve engineer used Google to find a new matchmaking algorithm for Team fortress and now it’s in the game