For long drives I have maps up mostly to alert me for traffic. Even if I know the route.

You would think the world right now is led by bright, clever, thoughtful individuals considering the AI panic lol

I drive via landmarks and signs most of the time unless it’s an address I don’t personally know. Makes you feel more connected to where you live.

Your brain is weirdly unhappy with the concept of other brains doing math. Nice!

The brainpower involved in mental math is just real-time factorization and otherwise general application of the rules of arithmatic. It's no waste, it's just a well practiced set of pathways that take annoying math and make it friendly. It takes at most 2 seconds to know if it's time to use a calculator.

"ChatGPT, summarize this study for me"

The real problem is that the first 10 links after the AI slop are all ads. At least the slop (for now) is less ad-centric. I am 100% sure that will change soon.

What's wrong with EEG?

With Gemini I have had several instances of the referenced article saying nothing like what the llm summarized. Ie: The LLM tried to answer my question and threw up a website on the general topic with no bearing on the actual question

So basically LLM is new eugenics, we turn people back into animals.

I use them to find a new route. I'll try and drive back on memory. After that I should be able to find it on my own

You suck at learning.

• ☐ you misunderstand EEG
• ☐ you confuse EEG with something else

As an anecdote I can attest to this personally. I stopped using AI assistance tools for my work bc I noticed I'd stopped thinking about what I was doing

Your brain doesn't have real time traffic information.

Chatgpt is so hopelessly and blindly pro science it will be incapable to address its shortcomings unless you actively rub its nose in it. And that would mean you know how the sausage is made well enough that you don't need a summary.

We have the meanest dumfucks instead, we're tired of playing on easy mode.

It's low energy brain porn, nmr brain imaging, gray matter v white matter, all the same flavour of reading tea leaves.

I can attest to the exact same thing.

• ☒ you misunderstand EEG

Same, especially when searching technical or niche topics. Since there aren't a ton of results specific to the topic, mostly semi-related results will appear in the first page or two of a regular (non-Gemini) Google search, just due to the higher popularity of those webpages compared to the relevant webpages. Even the relevant webpages will have lots of non-relevant or semi-relevant information surrounding the answer I'm looking for.

I don't know enough about it to be sure, but Gemini is probably just scraping a handful of websites on the first page, and since most of those are only semi-related, the resulting summary is a classic example of garbage in, garbage out. I also think there's probably something in the code that looks for information that is shared across multiple sources and prioritizing that over something that's only on one particular page (possibly the sole result with the information you need). Then, it phrases the summary as a direct answer to your query, misrepresenting the actual information on the pages they scraped. At least Gemini gives sources, I guess.

The thing that gets on my nerves the most is how often I see people quote the summary as proof of something without checking the sources. It was bad before the rollout of Gemini, but at least back then Google was mostly scraping text and presenting it with little modification, along with a direct link to the webpage. Now, it's an LLM generating text phrased as a direct answer to a question (that was also AI-generated from your search query) using AI-summarized data points scraped from multiple webpages. It's obfuscating the source material further, but I also can't help but feel like it exposes a little of the behind-the-scenes fuckery Google has been doing for years before Gemini. How it bastardizes your query by interpreting it into a question, and then prioritizes homogeneous results that agree on the "answer" to your "question". For years they've been doing this to a certain extent, they just didn't share how they interpreted your query.