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points by augment_me 2 days ago | 0 comments

Does it really matter that much? Did it matter that everyone's parents pre-internet were wrong half of the time?

Most people are not asking google to build them a train signaling system but to look up some question on Wikipedia for which the answer does not matter that much

[–] hedora 2 days ago

If that’s the case, those people should just install a 7M param model on their phones and use that. It’s probably as accurate, but works offline.

[–] augment_me 2 days ago

Sure but that is harder than pressing a button or saying hey Google. It requires you to think, install a new app, make a UI, etc.

Think of the incentives and the path of absolute least resistance/thinking/energy use and you will arrive at the product people want.

[–] hedora 1 day ago

I think you can press a button + say "Hey Siri" at this point (though that assumes Siri works at all, which I agree is a stretch.)

[–] tokioyoyo 2 days ago

7M param doesn’t do web searches for you. Otherwise, yeah?

[–] hedora 1 day ago

7M is fine if you don't care about the quality/correctness of the output and just want some utterance that looks plausibly related to the question. I guess that is the bar this thread has set for Google search quality being good enough for most users.

[–] fao_ 1 day ago

> Does it really matter that much?

Does truth matter in the post-truth world where disclaiming truthful news about you is as easy as calling it fake?