Literally never had this happen. Every time I have caved after exhausting all other options the LLM has just made it worse.
Yea well it still can't have an existential crisis like humans can! Take that!
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Sanctus@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 13 hours ago
They’re by no means the end-all solution. And they usually aren’t my first choice.
But when I’m out of ideas prompting gemini with a couple sentences hyper-specifically describing a problem, it has given me something actionable. I’ve had almost no success with asking it for specific instructions without specific details about what I’m doing. That’s when it just makes shit up.
But a recent example. I was trying to re-install windows on a lenovo ARM laptop. Lenovos own docs were generic for all their laptops, and intended for x86. You could not use just any windows iso. While I was able to figure out how to create the recovery image media for the specific device at hand, there were no instructions on how to actually use it, and entering the BIOS didn’t have any relevant entries.
Writing half a dozen sentences describing this into Gemini, instantly informed that there is a tiny pin-hole button on the laptop that boots into a special separate menu that isn’t in the bios. A lo, that was it.
Sanctus@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
I do use LLMs if I forget to plan one of my tabletop sessions. I will fully admit they are great at that. Love 'em for making encounters.
idunnololz@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
They seem to be pretty good at language. One time i forgot the word “tact” and I was trying to remember it. I even asked some people and no one could think of the eord I was thinking of even after I described approximately what it meant. But I asked AI and it got it in one go.
Eheran@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
When was the last time you tried? GPT5 thinking is able to create 500 lines of code without a single error, repeatable, and add new features into it seamlessly too. Hours of work with older LLMs reduced to minutes, I really like how much it enables me to do with my limited spare time. Same with “actual” engineering, the numbers were all correct the last few times. So things it had to find a way to calculate and then figure out some assumptions and then do the math! Sometimes it gets the context wrong and since it pretty much never asks questions back, the result was absurd for me, but somewhat correct for a different context. Really good stuff.
BroBot9000@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Really good until you stop double checking it and it makes shit up. 🤦♂️
Go take your Ai apologist bullshit and feed it to the corporate simps.
Donkter@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
I’ve come to realize that these crazed anti-ai people are just a product of history repeating itself. They would be the same leftists who were “anti-gmo”. When you dig into it you understand that they’re against Monsanto, which is cool and good, but the whole thing is so conflated in their heads that you can’t discuss the merits of GMOs whatsoever even though they’re purportedly progressive.
It’s a pattern, their heads in the right place for the most part. But the logic is just going a little haywire as they buy into hysteria. It’ll take a few years probably as the generations cycle.
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 hours ago
Also did you adequately describe your problem? Treat it like a human who knows how to program, but has no idea what the fuck you’re talking about. Just like a human you have to sit it down and talk to it before you have it write code.
lectricleopard@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
It gave you the wrong answer. One you called absurd. And then you said “Really good stuff.”
Not to get all dead internet, but are you an LLM?
I dont understand how people think this is going to change the world. Its like the c suite folks think they can fire 90% of their company and just feed their half baked ideas for making super hero sequels into an AI and sell us tickets to the poop that falls out, 15 fingers and all.
abfarid@startrek.website 9 hours ago
Happened to me yesterday. I have an old 4K TV, every component I used to connect to it had HDMI 2.0+ capabilities. Neither laptop nor Steam Deck would output 4K60, only 4K30. Tried getting another cable and a hub, same result. And I know that my Chromecast outputs 4K60 to this TV, so I was extra confused. In my desperation, asked GPT-5 what was I missing, and it plainly told me that those old Samsung TVs turn off HDMI 2.0 support unless you explicitly turn it on in TV settings under “UHD Color”. Apparently Chromecast was doing chroma subsampling, but computers refused and wanted full HDMI 2.0 bandwidth…
TehBamski@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Context is highly important in this scenario. Asking it how many people live in [insert country and then province/state], and it’ll be accurate a high percentage of the time. As compared to asking it, [insert historical geo-political question], and it won’t be able to.
Also, I have found it can depend on which LLM you ask said question to. I have found Perplexity to be my go to LLM of choice, as it acts like an LLM ‘server’ in selecting the best LLM for the task at hand. Here’s Perplexity’s Wikipedia page if you want to learn more.
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 11 hours ago
They are great if you know what the right answer is just don’t know how to get it right now
Kolanaki@pawb.social 10 hours ago
Asking genAI questions I already know the answer to is how I know the AI is wrong more than it is right.
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 2 hours ago
Yeah, but I can copy paste the code and then fix it quickly.
DrDystopia@lemy.lol 13 hours ago
Ah, to live a life where ones problems can be solved by an LLM. It sounds so… simple and pleasant. 🫀
craftrabbit@lemmy.zip 3 hours ago
That’s the world we all dream of, right? We work on what we want to with the robots keeping the houses in check and taking care of the menial admin- and paperwork and in the evenings we all sit together by the campfire with the robots bringing us food and drink as we rejoice in talking to each other about the day’s experiences.
That doesn’t seem to be the world that we’re moving towards though…
somerandomperson@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 hours ago
…NOT!
It’s just big tech selling convenience for the trillionth time, this time in another form. They are NOT doing out of good will; they’re doing it to sell your data, to train their ai on it (alongaide their pirated media), and do other nefarious stuff with everything you have.
DrDystopia@lemy.lol 12 hours ago
…NOT!
I promise you, as someone overcome with sadness from watching the so-far unsolvable problems of mankind that will lead to the end of the world as we know it - Living a life where one believe simulated intelligence could solve anything at all is a dream. Ignorance is bliss.
It’s just big tech selling convenience for the trillionth time
No, once more they’re selling the impression of convenience. I.e. having the entire backend exposed to hackers because it was so convenient to vibe-code access control is not a real convenience.
They are NOT doing out of good will
Only idiots argue for such an intention.
they’re doing it to sell your data, to train their ai on it
No, they’re doing it to harvest our data. This allows them to use machine learning on the datasets but more traditionally, build profiles on their users. Access to the profiles is what they’re selling, not direct access to log data.
and do other nefarious stuff with everything you have
Then they need to step up their game as I’m self-hosting everything on a home-server. But I know what you mean. They want to do downright evil stuff with everything they can get their dirty, sticky paws on.
LoreSoong@startrek.website 13 hours ago
Im convinced they made search engines worse to promote AI usage.
cRazi_man@europe.pub 12 hours ago
Search engines were returning shit more and more, before LLMs even existed.
pennomi@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
When search engine optimization becomes a target, content suffers. If Google changed their algorithm to only rank websites with high quality content instead of keyword-stuffed content, we’d see a great improvement in the quality of the internet.
mushroommunk@lemmy.today 12 hours ago
I’ve never seen convincing arguments for that. However, if you think about it, Google wants you to stay scrolling through it forever. The more sponsored links and ads they can show, the more money they make. They didn’t need to make it worse for AI, they made it worse for profit
LoreSoong@startrek.website 11 hours ago
Im encountering alot of AI created websites that explain concepts like “side effects of X pill” (a recent example) and there was basically no real medical websites in the top results, Just clearly AI using thousands of words to say nothing that I cant trust.
I was considering locally hosting a search engine to circumvent my need for them entirely. Search engine optimization seems like a nightmare, if they were trying to give me useful results. So im not sure if that would be a spend 5 hours to save 5 minutes situation.
As you and others said, Its been getting worse for years so its probably just a coincidence that its also profitable for AI.