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Honey - get my popcorn! Show’s about to start!
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This is precisely why this forum is so valuable. AI just scrapes info from all sources (allegedly) electronically and regurgitates that information according to algorithm. So unlike here, there is no meaningful insights as far as personal experience with the myriad of items related to actually running and fishing on skiffs over years of time. So there ya go. Going to listen to a virtual dummy who knows nothing other than what it scrapes and outputs as per what someone programmed into it? Nope.
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AI is good at taking a lot of disparate data, consolidating it and making it easier to digest and understand.
Research of broad, complex topics can be done in a fraction of the time.
It is also better at quantitative scenarios as opposed to qualitative.
The question posed in on the qualitative side, meaning there is no standard basis or formula that can be used by the model. So it will aggregate related information and provide suggestions, but it would not be able to definitely answer that.
Certain models excel at certain tasks. Gemini (used to answer the skiff question) is underwhelming at broad research. It does better with summarizing pages, documents and writing.
Perplexity is better at broad data gathering across the web. ChatGPT has a web-based mode in their 4.0 model that can be selected, but again, this would just provide qualitative data.
But it is a powerful tool when used right. I’ve been using NotebookLM to bring in books, articles, podcasts and videos - it will aggregate all the data for me and I can create my own salient topics, outlines and deep dives. I then can turn that back into audio and listen to it while driving. Saves me a ton of time.
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@coconutgroves - would be interesting to repeat the same question above in the various models you mention and see what the outcomes are. I mean, someone is gonna start arguing on this thread, why not let the AI models do it?
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Reminds me of trying to get my Google Home and Alexa to start and continue a conversation with one another.
AI is a tool - it isn’t digital jesus. I have tons of tools in my garage - knowing which one to use for what job is important. It really gets back to a simple question - what am I trying to accomplish? What’s the goal? Then finding the right strategy to get there. AI-first is what’s causing a lot of pushback and making it a polarizing topic.
It also left out Hawaii
You mean HWIAA?
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Close enough…
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Exactly. I don’t want to have a forum conversation w/ an AI bot about subjective topics, but I use Perplexity, Gemini, and NotebookLM daily at work.
Perplexity is great at digging up instructions from the broad web and summarizing them w/ cited sources for example. Especially on technical topics. NotebookLM is good if you want to constrain the sources it uses like you described (I use it to compare security schedules in contracts to corporate policies). Image generation in particular remains really poor at spelling for some reason. Try to make a logo for example and it will create some good layouts but screws up spelling even if you are explicit about how to spell certain elements.
All depends on what you are trying to accomplish. Definitely not perfect but saves me a LOT of effort on certain things.
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