{"id":9890,"date":"2024-03-12T12:33:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-12T16:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/?p=9890"},"modified":"2024-03-12T11:57:59","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T15:57:59","slug":"generative-ai-instead-of-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/2024\/03\/12\/generative-ai-instead-of-search\/","title":{"rendered":"Generative AI instead of search"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

About 6 months ago, I played a bit with large language models. It was interesting. The responses were like a middle school kid didn’t read the book, but tried to summarize the Cliff Notes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Prompt: make a sticker for “I survived the Microsoft Defender update apocalypse” with a Defender shield icon.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The past couple days, there has a been a problem in another IT area affecting my ability to do my work. Super frustrating. But, every time there is an update, I am left feeling like I want to know more. So, I wrote a prompt based on the information in the latest status update into Copilot. I got back something that looks like a better, more understandable description than I normally get back from a human.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I wonder if perhaps because I am not a subject matter expert for the technologies involved, this is bullshit. But, it feels right enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And, I think that scares me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

About 6 months ago, I played a bit with large language models. It was interesting. The responses were like a middle school kid didn’t read the book, but tried to summarize the Cliff Notes. The past couple days, there has a been a problem in another IT area affecting my ability to do my work. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3009],"tags":[2673,3679,3059],"class_list":["post-9890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-large-language-models","tag-microsoft"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1rUBW-2zw","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}