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[–] frezik@midwest.social 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

We all know how AI has made things worse, but here's some context on how it's outright backwards.

Early search engines had a context problem. To use an example from "Halt and Catch Fire", if you search for "Texas Cowboy", do you mean the guys on horseback driving a herd of cows, or do you mean the football team? If you search for "Dallas Cowboys", should that bias the results towards a different answer? Early, naive search engines gave bad results for cases like that. Spat out whatever keywords happen to hit the most.

Sometimes, it was really bad. In high school, I was showing a history teacher how to use search engines, and he searched for "China golden age". All results were asian porn. I think we were using Yahoo.

AltaVista largely solved the context problem. We joke about its bad results now, but it was one of the better search engines before Google PageRank.

Now we have AI unsolving the problem.

[–] doingthestuff@lemy.lol 6 points 1 day ago

I was okay with keyword results. If you knew what you were dealing with in the search engine, you could usually find what you were looking for.

[–] cmgvd3lw@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Why is the search query in the top and bottom different?

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[–] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 23 points 1 day ago (6 children)

A statistical model predicted that "in heat" with no upper-case H nor quotes, was more likely to refer to the biological condition. Don't get me wrong: I think these things are dumb, but that was a fully predictable result. ('...the movie "Heat"' would probably get you there).

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 51 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

As a comparison I ran the same all lower case query in bing and got the answer about the movie because asking about a movie is statistically more likely than asking if a human is in heat. Google'a ai is worse than fucking bing, while google's old serach algorith consistently had the right answers.

Google made itself worse by replacing a working system with ai.

[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Kagi quick answers for comparison gets this tweet, but now it thinks that heat is not the movie kind lol

The AI ouroboros in action

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[–] rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works 23 points 1 day ago (2 children)

google strips capitalization from searches

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[–] Lumidaub@feddit.org 10 points 1 day ago

It's not just any human though, it's an actor, so movie related words should statistically be more likely.

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