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Posted by sancho-panza 12 hours ago

When did Google get so weird?(sancho.bearblog.dev)
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mattlondon 12 hours ago||
Because you are in a chat UI now. This is a skill issue - when you change your mindset that Google is now a chat UI to a LLM and not a query engine any more, you'll get better results. If you try the same zero-context prompt with chat.com for example you get a similar "want to talk about it?" response.

Try asking it "Tell me about the "Dario will never come over" meme - give me some of the example original tweets" for example and you get a timeline, tweets etc as the AI overview. Pretty useful really.

Tl:Dr - just like people, you need to give it some context.

Latty 12 hours ago||
It's not a "skill issue", the product got worse.

If I wanted a chatbot, I'd go to a chatbot, I want a search. Making me frame my query as a question rather than just assuming it's a query by default is just bad.

mattlondon 12 hours ago||
We have to remember we're not average users. As others have pointed out here, normal people always just asked natural language questions.

Why do you think it was Google who was doing all that research into AI that invented the transformer architecture - that all current LLMs are based off of - in the first place? Normal users just ask a question, they don't construct a query. I think there are quotes about Larry Page wanting "the Star Trek computer" - we've basically surpassed that now I think.

Google has been working on this sort of problem for decades, and it's paying off for them.

venzaspa 6 minutes ago|||
> Google has been working on this sort of problem for decades, and it's paying off for them.

Is there any evidence to say this is true? Anecdotally I've heard more people (my mum, not just geeks) getting frustrated about the quality of Google search results.

netsharc 10 hours ago|||
What average user wants to be lied to by a machine who is pretending to have human feelings? Fuck me, I hope I never have to come into contact with any product/service you work on.
true_religion 5 hours ago||
I wish you could put some more effort into this comment, because I'd love to see a real rebuttal to this argument.
not_a_bot_4sho 11 hours ago|||
That's like me pressing the 'coffee' button on my coffee maker, and it gives me an audio definition and history because I didn't give it the context that I wanted a drink.

People expect certain conventions with well established products. It's not a skill issue when a product is broken.

kkkqkqkqkqlqlql 11 hours ago|
I know this may be my poor English, but, ignoring the main point of the article, something I find tangentially troubling about the issue is that Gemini does not mention the possiblity of Dario dead. Like, if I were a lonely person who has lost someone and the only "thing" I can talk to is Gemini, would I have to say Dario was unalived or something?

Or is it just my bad English?