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Crowman2009

(2,844 posts) Mon Dec 16, 2024, 07:07 AM Dec 16

Had a run in with Google A.I. overview's so-called search facts.

Apparently Jim Morrison was drafted and deployed to Vietnam in 1969. To think big tech is pouring billions into this technology.

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Had a run in with Google A.I. overview's so-called search facts. (Original Post) Crowman2009 Dec 16 OP

Experiments rogerashton Dec 16 #1

I hope someone, somewhere, is preserving true history as it happens... Think. Again. Dec 16 #2

Print books and Archive.org are our biggest hopes. Crowman2009 Dec 16 #3

rogerashton

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1. Experiments

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Mon Dec 16, 2024, 07:21 AM

Dec 16

I've run a number of experiments with it -- mostly using discussion questions from my course on the history of economic thought. Answers ran from appallingly bad to excellent. Generally, if there were common fallacies to avoid, the Google summary presented them as truth, but for questions about more esoteric stuff, the answers were often pretty good. Thing is, you have to know the answer to make the Google answers usable -- but if you know the stuff you don't need them.

Think. Again.

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2. I hope someone, somewhere, is preserving true history as it happens...

Reply to Crowman2009 (Original post)

Mon Dec 16, 2024, 07:28 AM

Dec 16

....and keeping that archive safely away from the clutches of A.I.