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I don't really understand what this comment about Google has to do with OP's comment. Is this something that even old Google could have done pre-SEOification?

Would Google have been able to read the datasheet? Or just point OP at what they already said they were happy to avoid?

> Without AI this would have been a long long process of brushing up on probability, vector math, manually transcribing the chart.

Sometimes, it feels like stochastic parrots are seizing on a few words from the comment to pattern match it to the closest typical refutation and failing bigly.

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You used to find amazing information on the internet back then. It is quite likely that someone else had already worked on a similar topic and blogged about it in a very searchable way. Without good search that kind of online culture died out.

While we do have a video tutorial culture that exceeds what we had back then in many ways, and to be fair that technically happened under Google's umbrella (Youtube), destroying search and with it a lot of the open internet, will not only be Google's downfall, it's also a silent tragedy.

Actually, measured by what a global online population could have achieved, with human information truly at anyone's fingertips, with infinite communities forming all over the place instead of in non-searchable Discord and monoculture Reddit ... this might be one of the main tragedies ever.

Are you asking if Google could ever find documentation and sample code on the internet?

Or are you asking if Google could understand a badly written query and understand it's about the sample code?

Because the answer to the first is "yes", and to the second is "no". But the first one adds almost all of the productivity here.

The notion of "stochastic parrot" has been disproven. It did come from a reputable AI researcher in the first place. You can call anything you want a "stochastic parrot", including human intelligence.

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Meta. Made me laugh.

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