There was an article a few days back with microplastics working through “untouched by humans” layers of lake silt.
Stay positive, friend.
There was an article a few days back with microplastics working through “untouched by humans” layers of lake silt.
Stay positive, friend.
I got it during a websearch. Changed VPN server to another city and it went away. Mullvad.
Beaver. Always beaver.
Australia is mostly degraded, channelised shallow creeks and erosion problems. Bam, beaver does all the work for us.
Can beavers survive in the subtropics?
I live in an area that was 95% cleared of rainforest. Our clearing rate is now near zero (but not zero), much success for everyone.
Are we going to restore it?
No. Farmers don’t want to.
Austria? Well, then. G’day mate! Let’s put another shrimp on the barbie!
The dream would be that I could sort them into a feedreader and select articles out but that won’t happen. Nor would I want a bot doing it either.
Unfortunately, no one else posts so for the meantime, I just have to keep going or let it die.
I made myself a thread of interests I add to over time:
My area has 40 years of studies behind it with a heap of science online. I’m always surprised that AI do so badly with it. If I can work it out by reading through study after study, AI should piss it in.
The good thing about perplexity is that it sources itself so you can check it. Others just give you the answer and if you don’t know much, you dont know if it’s wrong or not (better than no sources, I feel). I’ve also asked someone who is the world leader in my field to figure out when it starts giving completely wrong answers and in what area.
Is what you’re searching more of an in-field technique or would there be webpages or studies devoted to it?
Mine is in plants which a lot of models seem to struggle with. It’s not the science side, it’s the application side so with that, there is another layer of intelligence that the AI has to break through to appeal to me (answer my particular questions).
I tested it again with something even more particular and unique to an Australian plant and it was way off. I think I may have been one of the only people to ever post a particular technique to reddit and the AI mustn’t be searching in there as it didn’t even know about it even when asked directly. To its credit, it did give a good suggestion on who to contact to find out more.
I asked it directly. It didn’t know and stated it has never had version numbers. I pointed out that news articles differentiate 1.0 and 2.0. It agreed but didn’t say what it was. I asked it again directly, it said it was 2.0.
Hard to believe something that feels like it’s lying to you all the time. I asked it about a topic that I’m in and have a website about, it told me the website was hypothetical. It got it wrong twice, even after it agreed it was wrong, and then told me the wrong thing again.
Can you ask perplexity.ai your question about ceramic firing and see what you get? Perplexity offers prompts to move you along towards your answer.
Thank you. Will do.
I kept playing and tried the scenarios and was getting closer.
I don’t know if anyone will read this but I did further testing on perplexity when I got home. It’s probably not the right spot for it.
I tried a more trickier question and then I chose the available prompts to move forward (it suggests questions related to the original question if you are unsure how to prompt it next). The prompts were intelligent and were probably the next question I would assume I would ask if I were learning about this topic. On the next answer, it literally quoted something I wrote, almost word for word, on the exact subject which, according to me (of course) would be the correct answer.
I’ve never had an AI even reference a single thing I’ve written. I had prompted it into a general area where the things I had wrote existed so it should be expected but it made the connection almost instantly and answered the question 100% accurately.
As much as I hate it, well done Skynet.
Edit: After further testing, I can catch it out regularly enough but still, if I had to tell someone about the topic generally via email, I’d probably recommend it rather than me waste time typing it all out. I’ve just put myself out of a job.
I had an interesting result.
I proposed a simple question like I did all the other AI with “airoboros-65B-gpt4-1.4-GPTQ for 13 kudos in 369.6 seconds”. It was a bit of a wait, I understand why.
It gave me a word for word comment on what I assume is a blog post from a Melissa. The topic was related, just barely.
Which LLM do you recommend for questions about a subject? I looked in the FAQ to see if there was a guide to the choices.
Cheers for this. I tried a few of them while I’m waiting around and had one excellent result. I’m a near expert in one topic and I often test AIs against my knowledge for fun.
Perplexity.AI did the best I’ve seen; it sourced its arguments which, finally, weren’t wrong so if I needed to, I could actually learn more about what it was talking about. It’s not 100% but the other AI are so bad at this topic I test it on I always give up immediately.
I wouldn’t have seen it if it wasn’t for this post so thank you very much.
https://midwest.social/u/[email protected]
That works for me in a new browser. With my logged in instance (it changes to aussie.zone).
Consider a summary statement though. Not a big fan of a link with no text.