I was watching Kevin Hart’s latest comedy special on Netflix and during the special, he goes IN on Michael Jordan throughout. It sounds like they have an actual problem. So, I got on my phone and searched their two names and this is what I got.
If I just stopped there, I wouldn’t have my answer. However, if I scroll down, there are multiple links to what I want. This is exactly what I intended with my search.
So, you might say to yourself that I’m bad at searching. I’d suggest that I’m not bad at searching at all if the actual Google search results gave me exactly what I wanted. I wasn’t using Google like an LLM, I was putting in keywords to get answers. If I ask LLM-like questions every time, I rarely get the answers that I’m looking for because the “Googlebox” isn’t a full-blown LLM.
My big problem is that this happens over and over again. I searched for information about a character in a comic strip and I was told that there was no character by that name in that comic strip. But then it “helpfully” listed the names of the characters (including the one I asked about). This rush to “AI-ify” everything even at the expense of quality is infuriating. Not to mention all of the concerns about what using it in all of these (effectively) meaningless contexts does to the environment.
That’s it. Just ranting for kids to stay off of my lawn, I guess.