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Comment Re:Useless at finding media (Score 1) 248

I agree, it's hilariously bad at this task. Each time I've given it specific details it ignores the parameters. E.g. I gave it a date range of 1970-1975 and it suggested works from 2005. Or it makes up titles and assigns them to authors who don't even write in the genre.

Until it can admit that it doesn't know or doesn't have the data to generate an accurate response, it's no use to me.

Comment Re:What is the user interface? (Score 2) 141

Yep, good luck scrolling a website, downloading a PDF instruction manual, and zooming in on a section to see the wiring diagram - something I had to do yesterday on my phone. Even that was so painful compared to the PC screen that I went and used my desktop instead.

Plus people buy these phones with gigantic screens so they can play casual games on them. I'd love to see someone directing their army in Boom Beach or building a fort in some other game.

Comment Elite (1984) (Score 1) 228

Before Elite most games had 3 lives, you lost them one by one and started again. Then Elite came long and you could play indefinitely, in 8 galaxies of 256 planets each ... all crammed into 32k. Space trading, combat, ship upgrades, even an alien race.
Did I forget to mention it was all rendered in 3d wireframe?
There were two sequels, and then Elite Dangerous was released in 2015, and is still actively developed.

Comment AI provides plausible answers, not accurate ones (Score 2) 179

My experience with AI so far has not been promising. For example, I asked one of them for a list of childrens' encyclopedia published in England between 1970 and 1974. It came back with an autobiography of a slave from the deep south.

I asked it to look for a title I read as a kid, which was a graphic novel about Einstein's life and discoveries, probably published around 1972-1978. It came back with a book on Einstein published in the 2000's which was written by two women who weren't even born in the 70's.

There are several similar examples where it completely ignored the parameters and just threw out any old stuff. When I pointed the errors out, it said oh yes, you're right.

If it knew I was right and it was wrong, why didn't it just say 'I DON'T KNOW' or 'I CAN'T FIND WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING FOR'.

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