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We have to stop ignoring AI’s hallucination problem (www.theverge.com)

submitted 6 months ago by misk@sopuli.xyz to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] Lmaydev@programming.dev 34 points 6 months ago (18 children)

Honestly I feel people are using them completely wrong.

Their real power is their ability to understand language and context.

Turning natural language input into commands that can be executed by a traditional software system is a huge deal.

Microsoft released an AI powered auto complete text box and it's genius.

Currently you have to type an exact text match in an auto complete box. So if you type cats but the item is called pets you'll get no results. Now the ai can find context based matches in the auto complete list.

This is their real power.

Also they're amazing at generating non factual based things. Stories, poems etc.

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 26 points 6 months ago (2 children)

So if you type cats but the item is called pets get no results. Now the ai can find context based matches in the auto complete list.

Google added context search to Gmail and it's infuriating. I'm looking for an exact phrase that I even put in quotes but Gmail returns a long list of emails that are vaguely related to the search word.

[–] Lmaydev@programming.dev 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

That is indeed a poor use. Searching traditionally first and falling back to it would make way more sense.

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

It shouldn't even automatically fallback. If I am looking for an exact phrase and it doesn't exist, the result should be "nothing found", so that I can search somewhere else for the information. A prompt, "Nothing found. Look for related information?" Would be useful.

But returning a list of related information when I need an exact result is worse than not having search at all.

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