On 01/07/2025 11:00, Luca Fascione wrote:
I have had good success using AI for search applications.
In my experience this is an area where AI engines completely leave search
engines in the dust
And my experience is the exact opposite.
Fortunately, when I type a question into Google, the AI rephrases my
question into the question it is actually answering - which usually
bears precious little resemblance to what I actually want to know!
The problem is always getting past the AI misinformation to an actual
answer.
My only decent experience with AI is when a programming novice used it
to get a working example (in Excel VBA) of what he wanted, which helped
me understand his requirements.
And I then took the code, deleted the reams of boilerplate, and ended up
with something roughly one tenth the size.
(Oh - and how accurate it is I don't know, but somebody did an economic
analysis of the AI industry. In order to break even, they need to stick
a 0 on the end of their revenues, and get ten years life out of
datacentres which will be obsolete after three. OOPS!)
Cheers,
Wol
