Re: AI is not a solution

On 01/07/2025 11:00, Luca Fascione wrote:
> I have had good success using AI for search applications.
> 
> In my experience this is an area where AI engines completely leave search
> engines in the dust

And my experience is the exact opposite.

Fortunately, when I type a question into Google, the AI rephrases my 
question into the question it is actually answering - which usually 
bears precious little resemblance to what I actually want to know!

The problem is always getting past the AI misinformation to an actual 
answer.

My only decent experience with AI is when a programming novice used it 
to get a working example (in Excel VBA) of what he wanted, which helped 
me understand his requirements.

And I then took the code, deleted the reams of boilerplate, and ended up 
with something roughly one tenth the size.

(Oh - and how accurate it is I don't know, but somebody did an economic 
analysis of the AI industry. In order to break even, they need to stick 
a 0 on the end of their revenues, and get ten years life out of 
datacentres which will be obsolete after three. OOPS!)

Cheers,
Wol