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Comment by throwuxiytayq | Hacker News Reader

God damn. I respect you for being honest, but… god damn. That’s a pretty low bar.

Just in the last few days I had an example where the Google Search version of Gemini had a much better and more comprehensive answer, by far, than ChatGPT. It had to do with Amazon’s use of Data Matrix barcodes on shopping bags. Gemini was able to fully describe how they’re used in Amazon’s logistics chain. ChatGPT essentially said it didn’t know. Your preconceptions may not be accurate.

They might be, but still, I’ll be difficult to convince that Google’s shitty-ass 10B params instant answer models are good at anything other than cookie recipes and producing farts real fast for real cheap.

For what it’s worth, any time I see that feature, it’s all farts.

It depends on what you’re searching. If you only ever need really basic information like keyboard shortcuts or “is it & or &&?” then it’s pretty good, and definitely faster. And if it gets it wrong, then the shortcut doesn’t work or the code doesn’t compile and I search again and try the links.

People are really slow to update their priors after bad experience with an early version

Yes. Which means they’re really not equipped to deal with what’s going on right now.

It's just a google search but you can explain what you're searching for. AI summary may contain misleading details if you read it and take it literally, but 90% of the time it gives me pointer for the thing I need and I don't have to scroll through results that often could be just as misleading if not more.

It's demonstrably not. This summary, somehow, often fails to search, or fails to read what it searches and gives you the opposite answer. You shouldn't trust it.

In their world, it gives them the wrong answer that kills their dog, but it's fine because they never know because they don't look anywhere else. The dog dies, they're sad for a while, get a new dog, get on with their lives.

There's no reason not to trust it because since they trust it, they don't percieve anything wrong. They just take it and whatever happens happens, no annoying conflicting info and certainly none of that old grampa thinking and working and giving a shit about anything.

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