This is the technology worth trillions of dollars huh
I would estimate that Google's AI is helpful and correct about 7% of the time, for actual questions I'd like the answer to.
this post was submitted on 11 Sep 2025
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Lol @ these fucking losers who think AI is the current answer to any problems
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i rather manually search for info
Maybe it thought you were asking for states that contain the letter D? In which case it missed Idaho, Nevada, Maryland, Rhode Island (with two) and both Dakotas
So yea it did pretty poorly either way lmao
I get the sentiment behind this post, and it's almost always funny when LLM are such dumbass. But this is not a good argument against the technology. It is akin to climate change denier using the argument: "look! It snowed today, climate change is so dumb huh ?"
AI writes code for me. It makes dumbass mistakes that compilers automatically catch. It takes three or four rounds to correct a lot of random problems that crop up. Above all else, it's got limited capacity - projects beyond a couple thousand lines of code have to be carefully structured and spoonfed to it - a lot like working with junior developers. However: it's significantly faster than Googling for the information needed to write the code like I have been doing for the last 20 years, it does produce good sample code (if you give it good prompts), and it's way less frustrating and slow to work with than a room full of junior developers.
That's not saying we fire the junior developers, just that their learning specializations will probably be very different from the ones I was learning 20 years ago, just as those were very different than the ones programmers used 40 and 60 years ago.
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You do know that AI is (if not already) fast approaching a leading CAUSE of climate change?
While the environmental impact of AI is absolutely horrible I don't think it is even in the top 10 of industries. Meat production, Transportation by cars, Airplanes, plastic products etc are all much worse.
The problem is AI is absolutely useless for how big its climate impact is. The other industries at least provide value.
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Verified here wirh "us states with letter d"